Erica Meltzer

Erica Meltzer

National Editor

Erica Meltzer is National Editor at Chalkbeat, where she covers education policy and politics. Erica was a founding editor of the local news site Denverite. Before that, she covered everything from housing and energy policy to crime and courts for newspapers in three states. She served in the Peace Corps in Paraguay. Reach her at: emeltzer@chalkbeat.org.

A new report from the American Psychological Association does not endorse outright screen bans, but says school systems and vendors should hold themselves to a higher standard.

Moving special education oversight to Health and Human Services appears to have spurred a Senate committee vote to reverse some of Trump’s moves to break up the Education Department.

Roughly $50 million is on the line after the Office for Civil Rights found Jeffco in violation of Title IX. The district says the feds got key facts wrong and are misapplying the law.

The Education Department said the investigation will be one of many focused on parents’ rights to object to LGBTQ-related classroom materials and lessons.

The Justice Department can ‘cherry pick’ cases that align with President Donald Trump’s political priorities. Now it’s taking on a larger role in school civil rights enforcement.

An advocacy group is raising concerns about what it says is the lack of federal oversight. The Education Department disputes the idea that it isn’t looking out for students.

The Supreme Court said states can bar transgender athletes from women’s and girls' sports. That’s not the end of the story.

More than half of states prevent transgender girls and women from playing on school teams that match their lived gender. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that such laws don’t violate the Constitution.

Top Education Department officials told Chalkbeat that a sweeping reorganization is like a pilot program to show Congress students will do better without a dedicated federal agency.

Researchers hope their analysis — which aligns with a large body of research on inequality — serves as a call for action rather than despair.