Sarah Darville
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New York, NY, United States
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Why this election matters to teens
New York City teenagers discuss their respective political awakenings and why this election matters to them. → Read More
DeVos floats ‘microgrants’ for students, teachers as coronavirus upends schooling
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Friday that she will push for legislation offering “microgrants” to individual students and educators adapting to remote learning. → Read More
Money for technology, cleaning, summer learning: What the coronavirus stimulus bill means for schools
If the stimulus package becomes law, it will mean billions for school districts, with more money going to states and schools with more low-income students. → Read More
Without child care for health care workers, school closures may prove ineffective, new research says
An analysis estimates that 15% of health care providers with children don’t have another family member in their household to provide child care when schools close. → Read More
‘Everything is different now’: Stoneman Douglas librarian reflects one month after shooting
One month ago, Diana Haneski was hiding in an equipment closet at Stoneman Douglas High School. She’s the school’s media specialist, and when the lockdown was announced she herded students into the closet, where she texted family members and waited, listening to the sounds of helicopters overhead. Seventeen people were killed in the shooting that day at her Parkland, Florida, school. In the days… → Read More
‘Everything is different now’: Stoneman Douglas librarian reflects one month after shooting
One month ago, Diana Haneski was hiding in an equipment closet at Stoneman Douglas High School. She’s the school’s media specialist, and when the lockdown was announced she herded students into the closet, where she texted family members and waited, listening to the sounds of helicopters overhead. Seventeen people were killed in the shooting that day at her Parkland, Florida, school. In the days… → Read More
A Chalkbeat roundtable: The promise and perils of charter networks like Success Academy
Elizabeth’s piece outlined her conclusions after more than a decade of reporting about charter school networks, and more specifically the […] → Read More
A Chalkbeat roundtable: The promise and perils of charter networks like Success Academy
Elizabeth’s piece outlined her conclusions after more than a decade of reporting about charter school networks, and more specifically the […] → Read More
What is Betsy DeVos’s ‘rethink school’ initiative all about? Her Wyoming speech offers clues
Her vision is all about parents having lots of options — and for many of those schools to serve one […] → Read More
Betsy DeVos offers first comment on DACA ending, says DREAMers should ‘take courage’
“I understand they’re here not by their own volition, and yet they are serious about pursuing their education,” DeVos said. → Read More
‘A revolutionary level of trust’: Empower Schools CEO on how Tennessee could partner to turn around Chattanooga schools
When state education officials met Thursday with Chattanooga leaders to discuss their newest idea for how to improve struggling schools […] → Read More
Budget deal would spare AmeriCorps, which supports thousands of schools
Schools and education nonprofits that rely on AmeriCorps workers may soon be able to breathe a sigh of relief — […] → Read More
Rave reviews: Here are the states, schools, and programs that have gotten Betsy DeVos’s seal of approval
In her speeches, she’s been citing program after program that she supports, often with remarkable specificity. → Read More
Why the Trump administration wants school districts to change their budgets — and how Title I could stand in the way
In calling for student-based budgeting, Trump joins a host of big-city school leaders and education reformers. → Read More
Betsy DeVos’s second week at the U.S. Education Department: What you need to know
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s second full week on the job was characterized by mixed messages. → Read More
Dear Secretary: Your messages to Betsy DeVos, as she begins her job overseeing the U.S. education department
Many of you wanted DeVos to know that the school where you work or send your children is working. → Read More
As crisis over Trump’s immigrant order mounts, what America’s teachers of refugee students want you to know
Before and after Trump’s order this week, we asked several of those teachers to tell about their jobs, their students, […] → Read More
What We Learned (And Didn’t) About Betsy DeVos At Her Confirmation Hearing
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next secretary of education spent more than three hours before the nation Tuesday night trying to recast herself as “mainstream.” After weeks of ske… → Read More
Serve or steer clear? Education reformers grapple with the Trump conundrum
The group said it would support a Democrat for education secretary only if Trump “disavows his prior statements” and makes […] → Read More
‘Will I be deported?’ Inside America’s classrooms in the wake of Trump’s win
After campaign in which Trump talked about ramping up deportations, teachers at schools that serve immigrants faced intensely personal questions. → Read More