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Mergers ahead: NYC is combining more tiny schools to combat enrollment drops - Oct 25th, 2024
How the NYC high school admissions process sorts kids by race, poverty, disability - Oct 16th, 2024
Explaining Chicago Public Schools: Academic performance - Sep 20th, 2024
Explaining Chicago Public Schools: The buildings - Sep 19th, 2024
Explaining Chicago Public Schools: The types of schools - Sep 18th, 2024
Explaining Chicago Public Schools: The employees - Sep 17th, 2024
Explaining Chicago Public Schools: The students - Sep 16th, 2024
They were babies and toddlers when the pandemic hit. At school, some still struggle. - Sep 5th, 2024
Here are Chicago's new school board districts - Sep 4th, 2024
NYC girls outperform boys in academics. But they’re unhappier in school. - Aug 12th, 2024
COVID aid funded big repairs at high-poverty schools. Will that give academics a boost too? - Jul 1st, 2024
At least 150 Chicago schools set to lose staff next school year - May 28th, 2024
Newark youth not in school or working nearly double the statewide rate, new report finds - Apr 24th, 2024
From ‘winning the lottery’ to ‘leaner schools’: How the end of federal COVID money could impact Chicago schools - Apr 10th, 2024
Chicago is getting an elected school board and candidates are starting to emerge - Mar 26th, 2024
Timeline: How private school voucher movement gained momentum in Tennessee before hitting a bump - Mar 25th, 2024
Philadelphia’s ‘Renaissance’ charter schools did not produce what was promised - Feb 28th, 2024
MSCS’ building strategy in the works: See which schools may be affected - Jan 29th, 2024
Arizona's federal-only voters are concentrated on college campuses, data show - Dec 19th, 2023
Test scores say COVID was especially rough on English learners. Not all school districts agree. - Nov 8th, 2023

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