Eric Gorski

NYC school rallies to bring back their student detained by ICE ‘They thought no one would miss him. That was a mistake.’ Now, this Bronx school community is rallying around a student detained by ICE.

Their student was detained by ICE. Now this Bronx school is rallying to get him back.
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‘Are students learning?’ Chicago’s bilingual education staffing falls short Chicago has been slow to provide many schools with what they need to serve English learners the way state law intended. The result? Students left waiting for an education they’re legally entitled to a...

"He shouldn’t have had to suffer for almost three years before he was able to receive the type of help that he needs." @chalkbeat.org and @blockclubchi.bsky.social investigate whether migrant students in Chicago are getting bilingual education required by state law. www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025...

Chicago school board fires Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez after months of tension The vote to terminate Martinez came late Friday at the start of the district’s two-week winter break. He vowed to fight the decision in court.

What a week that was ... Grateful for our talented, extremely hard-working and super well-informed team at Chalkbeat Chicago, who stepped up to give readers authoritative coverage of the shakeup at Chicago Public Schools.
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Timeline: The 30-year history of Michigan charter schools A comprehensive look at how charter schools came to be in Michigan.

Michigan Democrats are taking aim at charter school management and financial transparency in their upcoming lame-duck session. Here's how it came to this:
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"Employee retention is always a bit of a problem at local newspapers, and The Garden Island newspaper on the Hawaiian island of Kauai is no exception." 😆

53% of registered Chicago voters chose city’s first elected school board candidates Experts and election officials said the relatively high voter turnout in Chicago’s school board elections is in large part due to the race lining up with the presidential race.

“Pretty impressive." Chicago's first school board election produced strong voter turnout, bucking national trends.
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Any bill that features Circle Jerks AND Yo Gabba Gabba ... 🔥

Ready for a fight? Trump to pick wrestling exec Linda McMahon to head education department President-elect Trump is expected to pick the co-chair of his transition team to lead the education department. She has little experience in education and may be asked to dismantle the agency.

The last education secretary? Trump is expected to nominate a longtime supporter and big donor who served on the Connecticut State Board of Education for a year.
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NYC is revamping its student data privacy policy. Parents want stronger protections. The Panel for Educational Policy was slated to vote on a proposed revision to a 2009 regulation concerning student privacy, but members want the public to weigh in.

Concerns over NYC’s student data privacy proposal heightened by Trump win:
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Remote learning hurt high school grad rates, and students are still feeling the impact Even students who were in elementary school when COVID struck might need extra support to graduate high school, the authors of a new study said.

The longer a district kept school buildings closed in 2021 and 2022, the less likely their students were to graduate on time — @kalynbelsha.bsky.social runs down new research on how the pandemic upended student learning.

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Thank you for starting this, @nicholedobo.bsky.social!
Follow these excellent education journalists, folks.

Defense pick Hegseth paid accuser but denies sexual assault, attorney says Documents obtained by The Post provide extensive detail about an allegation that Pete Hegseth sexually assaulted a woman in 2017.

Exclusive: Documents obtained by The Post provide extensive detail about an allegation that Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, sexually assaulted a woman in 2017.

Thank you for starting this, Eric. Hope it keeps growing!

List of 400 purged library books is circulating among Tennessee school districts One Tennessee district’s list of books removed from its school libraries under a state law is being used by other districts as a guide.

This week in book bans: One Tennessee school districts's purge is starting to be imitated by other districts and could serve as a template. Goodbye Dr. Seuss and Toni Morrison.
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Would axing the Education Department hurt kids with disabilities? Experts say: It depends Trump has called for abolishing the U.S. Department of Education. How that affects students with disabilities would depend a lot on what happens next.

A federal hearing about special education teacher shortages turned into a debate about how the potential elimination of the U.S. Department of Education would affect students with disabilities. Before taking office, Trump casts a large shadow.
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Can Chicago build a better school board election? In Chicago’s District 10 board race, ballot challenges, money, and attack ads swept in. The race mirrored some of the school board election trends citywide.

Ballot challenges, big money, information gaps: How Chicago’s first school board elections played out.
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School closures: The week before Denver’s vote was marked by protests and pushback Students walked out of class Friday and marched to Denver Public Schools headquarters, where they chanted, “Keep your hands! Off our school!”

“Keep your hands off our school!” The Denver school board, trying to improve its community engagement, gets an earful.
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Is 2025 the year Colorado will get a universal dyslexia screening law? Frustrated parents urged the Colorado Board of Education on Wednesday to back legislation that would require schools to screen students for dyslexia.

A gut punch of an opening line in this story, quoting a parent pleading for mandatory dyslexia screening in Colorado schools: "Bri Luna said her daughter started kindergarten with the nickname 'Little Miss Sunshine' and by middle school was on antidepressants because of her reading struggles."

Tennessee governor backs Trump plan to abolish U.S. Department of Education Gov. Bill Lee said Wednesday that he’d welcome closing the U.S. Department of Education under President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, adding that states can do a better job deciding how to spen...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee: We can do a better job distributing federal dollars than the federal government.
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The All-Male Christian Group Seeking a Resurrection in the Trump Era At a gathering this weekend, the evangelical organization Promise Keepers leaned into partisan politics it once eschewed.

I wrote about Promise Keepers back in the day. This quote from the new CEO - on downplaying the past emphasis on combatting racism and building relationships across racial boundaries - made me gasp: "Frankly, that’s what got Promise Keepers to begin its decline." www.nytimes.com/2024/08/11/u...

It's our prime-time debut! Very cool to see Chalkbeat feature in last night's season premiere of Abbott Elementary.
Be like an Emmy winner. Read all about it in Chalkbeat:
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What Fish said. Gotta drop off your ballots today, Colorado. #copolitics #edcolo

Morning. ☀️