Eric Gorski

Eric Gorski

Managing Editor for Local News

Eric Gorski is one of Chalkbeat’s Managing Editors for Local News. He was previously Bureau Chief of Chalkbeat Colorado. Gorski has worked as an investigative and projects reporter for The Denver Post, a national writer for The Associated Press, and a reporter for The (Colorado Springs) Gazette, The Oregonian, and the Anderson (S.C.) Independent-Mail. He was twice named the Religion Newswriters Association’s Religion Writer of the Year, and was part of The Denver Post staff’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the 2012 Aurora theater shooting. Gorski is a graduate of the William Allen White School of Journalism at The University of Kansas.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools violated Title IX by not adequately responding to complaints of sexual harassment and assault of students over a three-year period, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights announced.

Hillsdale College wants donations to ‘put the Constitution back in Tennessee schools.’ But it isn’t absent, educators say.

School board leadership reiterates support for confirmation of Alex Marrero as Denver schools superintendent.

Over the next several months, Chalkbeat will introduce you to ninth graders across the U.S. trying to figure it all out.