About 50 in-home child care providers affiliated with Highbridge Advisory Council Family Services have gone months without payment -- with many draining their savings to stay open. One provider tells me she's owed $30,000: ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…

Just in case it's relevant for any particular reason, here's what to know about PA Gov. Josh Shapiro's record on education: chalkbeat.org/philadelphia/2…

A trend that, if it continues, would dramatically reshape NYC's school system. Here are New York City School Construction Authority's most recent school enrollment projections, which predict a PreK-12 population of 662,000 in 2032 -- a drop of 230,000 students in 10 years.

Tim Walz’s education record: free breakfast and lunch for all students, increased school funding, tax credits to reduce poverty, college tuition assistance. chalkbeat.org/2024/08/06/tim…

Unbelievable discovery from Alexander Shur: In Wisconsin, if data shows more ballots were cast than the # of voters who voted, they just randomly pick a ballot out of the pile and don't count it. The voter never finds out their ballot didn't count. votebeat.org/wisconsin/2024…

English scores dropped more at schools that adopted Chancellor David C. Banks's mandated reading curriculums compared with others that didn't But does that mean literacy overhaul is failing? Experts say the data don't support that conclusion: chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024/0…

Today: - Christina Greer on candidate Harris's closing speech at the DNC, - Alex Zimmerman on English scores in NYC schools, - Paul Krugman on Kamala Harris's economic policy agenda, - 'Gap years' or 'mini-retirements' for adults Live at 10 on 93.9 FM, AM820 or WNYC 🎙.org

Listen: Chalkbeat New York's Alex Zimmerman spoke with us today about why English test scores may have dropped in New York City public schools. wnyc.org/story/english-…

SCOOP: A working paper will be published tomorrow providing the first credible estimates of the effect of US teacher strikes. Do these labor stoppages work? Do they deliver gains for workers? Do they help or hurt students academically? I've been covering teacher unions for over

Over the 2010s, ideas crystallized that real social change would come only from mass protest and collective pressure. Individual action became seen at best as unproductive—at worst, a harmful distraction. I wrote an essay about why I've changed my mind: vox.com/culture/368201…

👋Healthbeat is officially live! Our new platform is working to help everyone understand how the public health system works so we can all work to make it better. Think of our reporting (via Civic News Company and KFF Health News) as a community health forecast. healthbeat.org

NYC recently began requiring preschools offer full-day programming on the first day of school to help working families But many sites are still offering half-days (including the city's own pre-Ks). DOE officials don't seem too worried about it chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024/0…

Several ppl said they've been impressed with Jade Grieve, who shepherded Banks top career education programs and built relationships w/ the private sector Big Q is whether this dampens momentum

Eric Adams pumped the brakes today on an imminent citywide school cell phone ban. "There will be some action in the upcoming school year, but the extent of a full ban, we’re not there yet." chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024/0…

NYC needs to make historic progress on class size reduction to bring an additional ~20% of classes under caps by next Sept and stay in compliance w/ law. But despite new $ in school budgets, NYC has so far hired fewer new teachers this yr than last. chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024/0…

An irony of the app-based panic button Terence Banks may have helped introduce to NYC schools is it relies in part on students having their phones at school - something the chancellor is now encouraging schools to disallow. (Via Alex Zimmerman last yr chalkbeat.org/newyork/2023/1…)

What should parents know about NYC’s sweeping literacy mandate? Alex Zimmerman breaks it down: chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024/0…

Why did a tech firm looking to get its security app into public schools ditch an actual lobbyist and hire the brother of the schools chancellor and the deputy mayor for public safety instead? GregBSmith cues up a key question in the Eric Adams saga. thecity.nyc/2024/09/09/ter…

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NYC yanked special ed services from hundreds of private school children w/ little notice Officials say they are trying to address fraud + costs that have soared beyond $500M/yr But the dragnet caught kids who have a right to extra help from the city: chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024/0…