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• Two competing Colorado bills want social media companies to quickly respond to law enforcement February 20, 2026
  Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox.After a student at Evergreen High School wounded two other students in a September shooting, Jefferson County Sheriff Reggie Marinelli knew laws needed to be changed.“When this happened, I brought […]
  Jason Gonzales
• Tennessee private school teachers without a degree could get emergency teaching permits under new bill February 20, 2026
  Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools.Some Tennessee private school teachers without a college degree would be eligible to teach in public schools under a new bill advanced by the Senate Education Committee this week. Senate Bill 2019 would allow private school teachers without […]
  Melissa Brown
• Where’s Riverstone? New site of ‘public Christian school’ unclear as old location draws scrutiny February 20, 2026
  Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox.Leaders of Riverstone Academy, which backers have called Colorado’s “first public Christian school,” won’t reveal where the school has been located since its original building was closed in late January […]
  Ann Schimke
• State superintendent says Trump’s Michigan schools investigations are based on false info February 20, 2026
  Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy.Michigan’s superintendent is firing back at the U.S. Justice Department by saying the Trump administration’s Title IX investigations into three districts are based on false information about the state’s health education guidelines.U.S. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet […]
  Hannah Dellinger, Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press
• Upper East Side gets 132 pre-K and 3-K seats after delayed opening February 19, 2026
  Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox.More than seven months after being completed, a city-run early childhood center will finally open in the fall on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, adding 72 new prekindergarten seats and 60 3-K seats to the area, […]
  Lizzie Walsh