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30 storiesNewest publisher update · 2026-10-30 16:34 UTC
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Newark students show academic growth on new state tests, though most fall short of proficiency

Most students in Newark Public Schools fell short of grade-level expectations in math and English language arts on New Jersey’s new state tests this past spring. Fewer than 30% of Newark students in grades 3-8 were considered proficient on the exams in the 2025-26 school year, with rates ranging from 13.7% among eighth graders to 29.1% among third graders. In English language arts, proficiency rates ranged from 22% among fourth graders to 35% among seventh graders. The results, presented at Thur

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2026-10-30 16:34 UTCchalkbeat.org
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The 2026 Illinois State Report Card is out. How is your child’s school performing?

Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name. After the Illinois State Board of Education changed the parameters for how it measures school-level performance earlier this year, the number of public schools in the state that are considered Exemplary — the state’s highest of five ratings — rose 17% States are required by federal law to have an a

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2026-10-30 14:00 UTCchalkbeat.org
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Wealthier, whiter neighborhoods benefit from Tennessee voucher program

Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name. More than one-third of Tennessee’s 35,000 private school voucher recipients live in just 20 ZIP codes, most of them wealthy and majority white, according to data obtained by Chalkbeat Tennessee. While most of those recipients live in Tennessee’s largest cities, a Chalkbeat analysis found that ZIP c

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2026-10-30 11:00 UTCchalkbeat.org
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The high school hunt: A guide to NYC’s complex admissions process

Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name. Applying to high school in New York City is daunting: Eighth graders can choose from 700 programs in 400 schools across the five boroughs. Last year, of roughly 68,000 eighth graders who submitted applications, 58% of those were offered a seat in their top choice; 82% received one of their top thre

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2026-10-29 23:30 UTCchalkbeat.org
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Older adults are enrolling at Colorado’s two-year colleges at a higher rate

Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name. For a second year in a row, adults ages 25 and older helped fuel an enrollment increase at Colorado’s community colleges. Most community college students are still recent high school graduates or current high school students concurrently enrolled in college-level classes. But the share of older adu

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2026-10-29 23:12 UTCchalkbeat.org
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IPEC executive director highlights risk of state takeover of IPS if voters reject tax measure

Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name There’s not much time left before the Indianapolis Public Education Corporation finds out if voters have approved a $95 million property tax referendum critical to the schools under its umbrella. At IPEC’s Thursday meeting, its last before Election Day on Nov. 3, Executive Director Karega Rausch re

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2026-10-29 22:12 UTCchalkbeat.org
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Philadelphia City Councilmembers, union leaders call on Mayor Parker to prevent school closures

Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name. For more than a year, Philadelphia students, teachers, and community members have protested the district’s plan to close 17 schools. But Mayor Cherelle Parker hasn’t been a particularly loud voice in the closure debate. Now some prominent figures are calling her out. “We’re asking the mayor: Please

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2026-10-29 21:45 UTCchalkbeat.org
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Tennessee should increase funding for economically disadvantaged students, key committee says

Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name. Tennessee lawmakers should reconfigure its public school funding formula to classify more students as economically disadvantaged, according to a new recommendation from a top committee of Tennessee educators. Education advocates in the state have long warned Tennessee’s funding formula is undercou

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2026-10-29 19:58 UTCchalkbeat.org
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Was American education ever great? What Linda McMahon gets wrong about the past

Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name. Education Secretary Linda McMahon has long said she wants to “make education great again.” “American schooling, for generations, was the envy of the world,” she explained in a speech last week at a charter school near Salt Lake City. “Our classrooms were grounded in the fundamentals of reading, ma

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2026-10-29 14:24 UTCchalkbeat.org
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Some Detroit school board candidates spent campaign contributions on clothing, travel, and meals

Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name. Some candidates in the Detroit school board race reported spending campaign contributions on out-of-state travel, clothing alterations, and personal meals, recently filed reports show. One candidate for the Detroit Public Schools Community District’s board — Shinese Johnson — originally filed expen

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2026-10-29 10:00 UTCchalkbeat.org
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1 Detroit school board candidate raised nearly 80% of campaign money, finance statements show

Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name. The vast majority of publicly reported contributions in the crowded Detroit school board race were raised by one candidate, recently filed campaign finance statements show. Dr. Jameel Smith, a clinical psychologist running for public office for the first time, received more than 250 individual dona

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Dozens of small NYC high schools share buildings. Why don’t more share resources?

This is part two of a three-part series. Here’s the first story. And sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free email newsletter to be the first to know when the next story is published. As a parent leader for more than a decade, Johanna Bjorken has heard plenty of stories about New York City schools struggling with low enrollment. But Chalkbeat’s investigation last month into the decline of Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers — the city’s smallest traditional high school with roughly 90

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2026-10-28 22:34 UTCchalkbeat.org
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To boost teacher pay, many Colorado districts are asking voters to approve property tax measures

Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name. Rachel Cooper leaves her home in Rifle at 4 a.m. for the 45-minute daily commute to her teaching job in Carbondale. Her goal is to get ahead of the traffic that can clog the mountain canyon during rush hour. The pre-dawn departure is just one of the ways Cooper, a longtime science teacher at Roari

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2026-10-28 21:02 UTCchalkbeat.org
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For Chicago school board candidates, school closures are no longer off-limits

Data analysis by Thomas Wilburn Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name. Pastor Michael Neal was leading a church service at Price Elementary in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood in late 2011 when word spread among his congregation that the school would close at the end of that school year. Neal’s church had just started using the shrink

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2026-10-28 20:17 UTCchalkbeat.org
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Unprecedented IPS school board election will help decide how much power the district keeps

Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name. Voters will elect members of the new Indianapolis Public Schools board on Nov. 3. But this isn’t the kind of school board election the city has seen before. Fifteen candidates are running for five seats on a board that is losing authority over taxes, referendums, debt, transportation, and faciliti

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2026-10-28 19:36 UTCchalkbeat.org