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• Believe Schools pivots from second location in Pike to serve credit-deficient, non-traditional students May 21, 2026
  Sign up for Chalkbeat Indiana’s free daily newsletter to keep up with Indianapolis Public Schools, Marion County’s township districts, and statewide education news.Believe Schools is changing its plan to open a second Indianapolis high school in Pike Township to instead launch a small school for students who school leaders say are underserved.The Believe Accelerator school, […]
  Amelia Pak-Harvey
• Away game: NYC students who play sports for other schools May 21, 2026
  Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox.What if your high school doesn’t offer your favorite sport? Today’s disparities in access to sports teams stem from a policy pushed by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg to replace large high schools with smaller ones. […]
  Chalkbeat Staff
• Tom Kane has tracked years of U.S. test scores. Here’s what he’s learned — and still can’t explain. May 21, 2026
  Chalkbeat Ideas is a section featuring reported columns on the big ideas and debates shaping American schools. Sign up for the Ideas newsletter to follow our work.Just about everyone in education is trying to figure out why student achievement has been declining and how to raise it back up.If anyone would know the answer it […]
  Matt Barnum
• Council speaker tries new ‘buffer bill’ after Mamdani rebuff May 21, 2026
  This story was originally published on May 20 byTHE CITY. Sign up here to get the latest stories from THE CITY delivered to you each morning.City Council Speaker Julie Menin is preparing to re-introduce a limited version of a controversial bill that would establish anti-protest “buffer zones” around schools, opting not to try an override […]
  Claudia Irizarry Aponte, THE CITY, Katie Honan, THE CITY
• Denver school board debates whether members should give 48 hours’ notice before visiting a school May 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.Whether school board members should have to give 48 hours’ notice before visiting a school is a question that has split the Denver school board. One side says the 48-hour […]
  Melanie Asmar