Hannah Dellinger

Hannah Dellinger

Reporter, Chalkbeat Detroit

Hannah Dellinger is a reporter for Chalkbeat Detroit. Previously, she was an education reporter at the Houston Chronicle, where she completed a project on censorship in Texas public schools with an Education Writers Association fellowship in 2022. Prior to that, Hannah was a Hearst journalism fellow for two years in Houston and Connecticut, where she published an investigation and database of child sexual abuse tied to Boys & Girls Clubs of America affiliates that won an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award in 2020.

Districts serving the most vulnerable students struggle to retain high-quality educators.

Benchmark assessments from last school year suggest student achievement gaps are still wider than would be expected before COVID.

One issue we’re watching: a lawsuit the Detroit school district filed against the state over a dispute about millage revenue.

The legislation will require school districts to create behavior threat assessment teams and create more stringent emergency response protocols.

The Senate passed a few of Democrats’ charter school reform bills Thursday night. Bills that would have required more financial transparency died in the House.

The walkouts mean Democrats may not have enough votes to pass their legislative education priorities before they lose control of state government.

During a lame duck session, Senate Democrats approved bills that could require more financial transparency for charter schools.

The district wants legal clarity on whether it can use operating millage revenue to pay off all of its historic debt.

The introduction of the bills comes in the final days of Democrats’ control of the state legislature.

Lawmakers pushed the bills forward days after the three-year anniversary of the deadly Oxford school shootings.