That’s more than a million suspensions last school year alone: hechingerreport.org/suspended-for-… Fazil Khan Sarah Butrymowicz

NEW: We obtained documents that show the UT System terminated 69 staffers due to the DEI ban. Most were women & people of color. Story includes charts with race/gender breakdown.

W/ Phil Jankowski 🌟
dallasnews.com/news/education…

My months-long investigation published today Houston Landing:

Texas schools illegally suspended thousands of homeless students — and nobody stopped them.

In response to our findings, legislators & state officials said they're mulling potential action.

🔗: houstonlanding.org/texas-homeless…

Spent a few months following this small district outside Pittsburgh to learn how they changed its school culture to support student mental health. “Covid lit the house on fire. In a lot of ways, this became a method to tackle that problem.' - Jeff Evancho hechingerreport.org/horticulture-h…

COOL NEWS: Senator Katie Boyd Britt, Senator Patty Murray and Lisa Hamilton will join Trisha Powell Crain and Daniel Beekman of AL.com and The Seattle Times next week to discuss our country's child care crisis (And how to fix it) Stay tuned for the livestream! al.com/educationlab/2…

As I suspected: “The lawsuits argue Columbia is subject to the same housing laws as other NY landlords. …removing a tenant requires a judge sign off on an eviction. Further, only a city marshal acting on a warrant can evict a tenant, who must be given at least 14 days notice.”

Anyone have theories on what caused teacher morale to fall off a cliff between the end of last school year and the start of this one? What happened then that didn't happen during the worst of the pandemic/reopening? (From the new EdChoice Morning Consult poll.)

We lost our colleague Fazil Khan to an e-bike fire. Recognizing the safety risks, some colleges are starting to clamp down on the bikes, writes Nirvi Shah hechingerreport.org/fearing-fires-…

These trendlines are a disaster. Deeply troubling findings from America's teachers about how things are going in education.

Enjoyed these highlights of the recent Partners for Rural Impact rural education summit from Javeria Salman of The Hechinger Report: mailchi.mp/hechingerrepor… NREA Southern Education Foundation #rural

Come join our investigative team! If you want to learn more about the job, you can DM me or email at [email protected]. Happy to talk!

Unintended consequences of education savings accounts: tuition price hikes. My colleague Neal Morton found exactly the same in AZ hechingerreport.org/arizona-gave-f…

'I was surprised to learn that residential segregation has been declining over the past 30 years...More Black and white people live in proximity to each other. And yet, at the same time, school segregation is getting worse.' via Jill Barshay hechingerreport.org/proof-points-5…

Interesting piece by Jill Barshay on how segregation has changed since Brown v. Board:
40 percent of current school segregation is not due to residential segregation -- it's within administrative borders that policymakers can control hechingerreport.org/proof-points-5…

'The United Nations said last month that it had documented at least 5,479 students, 261 teachers and 95 university professors who had been killed in Gaza since October, as well as at least 7,819 students and 756 teachers wounded.' nytimes.com/2024/05/06/wor…

What an indescribable feeling it is to see Columbia Daily Spectator on the latest cover of New York Magazine. Our very own student journalists reported, wrote, photographed, and illustrated a three-story package that gives an intimate portrait into Columbia University: a campus in crisis.

My dispatch from the Pro-Palestine protest in Oxford today, one of the most... astonishing things I've ever seen Mississippi Today mississippitoday.org/2024/05/02/it-…

.Rachel Janfaza spoke to college seniors about graduating amid mass protests four years after graduating amid COVID lockdowns
tinyurl.com/msvwhnk4 Teen Vogue

“Embrace the wilderness, embrace the axe.” How universities are trying to recruit men. tinyurl.com/4av85zmz

BREAKING: Houston ISD to cut more than 100 wraparound staff who serve students experiencing homelessness and hunger

Miles previously told me he would not make cuts to this dept because the needs of Houston students are too high

Story: houstonlanding.org/houston-isd-to…