Chrissie Thompson
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Director @AP Education Network, public school mom, wife to a pretty cool physicist. More likely to be driving a minivan than checking this website. She/her
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Proud to work on this Education Reporting Collaborative project focused on the impact of the child care crisis on mothers' ability to stay employed. Great partnership between The Hechinger Report The Christian Science Monitor The Seattle Times Idaho Education News Dallas Morning News The Associated Press The Alabama Education Lab apnews.com/article/daycar…
What happens when the college essay becomes the only place where race can be considered in admissions? For students of color, it’s become a difficult set of trade offs in how to be true to themselves
from me, Collin Binkley and Noreen Nasir
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Beautiful, and heartbreaking. Sending all my love to my dear friends at The Hechinger Report
The final installment of the The Associated Press education team’s remarkable series on the pandemic’s missing students. projects.apnews.com/features/2023/…
Families trying to re-enroll their children in public school sometimes face immense bureaucratic hurdles. chalkbeat.org/2023/12/19/dis… Important story from BiancaVázquezToness The Associated Press
One effect of districts cracking down on families enrolling at the 'wrong' school, per this great BiancaVázquezToness piece, is enrollment paperwork so onerous that they can't enroll at all — in the middle of a chronic absenteeism crisis. projects.apnews.com/features/2023/…
How does housing insecurity contribute to chronic absenteeism and student mental health issues? BiancaVázquezToness delves into this topic by sharing 15-year-old Deneffy Sánchez’s story.
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The number of kindergartners in public school plunged during the pandemic and enrollment still lags. For many, kindergarten is no longer the assumed first step in a child’s education, another sign of how the pandemic upended US schools. My latest for The Associated Press: apnews.com/article/kinder…