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Articles by Mareesa Nicosia

The 74 Interview: CEO Tara Chklovski Talks About Getting Underserved Families — Especially Girls — Excited About Artificial Intelligence

Mareesa Nicosia

Donors Challenged — Including by Chicago’s Sister Jean — to Meet Huge Demand for Illinois Private School Tuition Scholarships

Mareesa Nicosia

4 Things to Know About New York’s $1 Billion Bump in Education Spending

Mareesa Nicosia

No More School Daze? California Weighs Making Middle & High Schools Start Later So Students Can Sleep In

Mareesa Nicosia

As Congress Mulls Slashing $2B in Title II Funds, Educators See Cuts Devastating Critical School Leadership

Mareesa Nicosia

Moody’s Moves On as National HS Math Whiz Competition Seeks New $3.6 Million Sponsor

Mareesa Nicosia

12 Rhode Island Schools Vie for Chance to Become Their State’s 3 Personalized Learning Labs

Mareesa Nicosia

Appellate Court Hands Success Academy a Victory in Dispute With NYC and State Over Pre-K Control

Mareesa Nicosia

On the Road: Elia, Regents Hold Public Hearing in Brooklyn as NY Readies ESSA Plan for Feds

Mareesa Nicosia

74 Interview: IDEA Schools COO Irma Muñoz, on Being a Living ‘Proof Point’ for Undocumented Students

Mareesa Nicosia

More Than 37K Applicants, Just 12 Schools: New Report IDs Bronx and Queens Nabes as Prime for Charter Growth

Mareesa Nicosia

New Research: Student Gains in Ohio’s Open Enrollment, but Top Districts Remain Closed

Mareesa Nicosia

Solving the Rural Education Gap: Experts Weigh In on New Report’s Findings Tying Gap to Prosperity

Mareesa Nicosia

Texas Next Stop for P-TECH, Popular High-School-to-Career Program Born in Brooklyn

Mareesa Nicosia

Mayoral Control Fight Heats Up: NYS Assembly Gives De Blasio 2 More Years, But Senate Demands More Data on School Spending

Mareesa Nicosia

Facing Pressure From Conservatives, Texas Again Looks to Ban Transgender Bathroom Use

Mareesa Nicosia

Long-Vacant NYC Courthouse Will Get New Life as Success Academy’s Second High School

Mareesa Nicosia

Federal Judge Denies NYC KIPP School’s Effort to Block Arbitration of Teacher Grievances

Mareesa Nicosia

Success Academy’s Top Lawyer Is Leaving to Start Her Own Charter Network

Mareesa Nicosia

NYC’s Mayoral Control Hearing Still Not Set; Testy Issue May Hinge on Lifting Charter Cap

Mareesa Nicosia

77 Million Edmodo Users Are Hacked as Widespread Cyberattacks Hit the Ed Tech World

Mareesa Nicosia

No Passing: 7 Things You Need to Know About America’s Ailing School Bus System

Mareesa Nicosia

New AP Poll Shows Majority of Americans Open to Expanding Nation’s Charter Schools

Mareesa Nicosia

The Habits of America’s Top Math Students: Survey Shines Light on Study Groups, Sleep, Enthusiasm

Mareesa Nicosia

Why Are Two Public-School-Loving Equity Warriors Starting a Private School in Brooklyn? Integration

Mareesa Nicosia

National Charter Schools Week to Toast 19 State & Federal ‘Champions’ From Both Parties at Capitol Hill

Mareesa Nicosia

Faster Internet at School: What’s Next for $4 Billion E-rate Fund Under New FCC Chief Ajit Pai?

Mareesa Nicosia

74 Interview: NY Education Chief MaryEllen Elia on ESSA, Undocumented Students & Turning Schools Around

Mareesa Nicosia

‘Bathroom Bills’ Beyond North Carolina: Here’s Where 10 Other States Stand on Public School Legislation

Mareesa Nicosia

Texas Vouchers Hit Dead End in Austin, as Another School Choice Bill Fails to Earn a Vote in State House

Mareesa Nicosia

Will 2017 Be the Year That New York’s Funding Lawsuits Finally Prevail?

Mareesa Nicosia

As NY Lawmakers Mull Budget to Expand Charter Schools, Fears of Federal Cuts May Shift Political Alliances

Mareesa Nicosia

KIPP v. UFT: Charter Network Sues Union, Arguing It Doesn’t Represent School’s Teachers

Mareesa Nicosia

No Warrant, No Way In: NYC to Prevent ICE Agents From Entering Schools Without Warrants

Mareesa Nicosia

After Heated Partisan Battle, Kentucky Is 44th State to Pass Charter Law

Mareesa Nicosia

After Six Years, Brooklyn’s P-TECH to Graduate First Class as the Model Expands Worldwide

Mareesa Nicosia

No Birds No Bees: Texas Students Rarely Get Quality Sex Ed Despite High Teen Birth Rates

Mareesa Nicosia

Governor’s Pick for New Hampshire Schools Chief Divides State, Echoes DeVos Controversy

Mareesa Nicosia

Texas GOP Primes for New Voucher Battle, as State’s Top Elected Officials Prioritize School Choice Bill

Mareesa Nicosia

Buoyed by State GOP Takeover, Kentucky May Be Next School Choice Battleground

Mareesa Nicosia

Phil-ing In: Meet the Man Overseeing America’s Schools While We Wait for a New Education Secretary

Mareesa Nicosia

Parents at Work: Has EdNavigator Fixed School Engagement by Making It a Job Benefit?

Mareesa Nicosia

Nebraska Lawmakers Propose Dozens of New Education Bills as Charters, Vouchers Gain Momentum

Mareesa Nicosia

NYC Parents, Advocates Rally to Demand That City Address Its ‘Middle School Deserts’

Mareesa Nicosia

As Political Winds Shift in Texas, Charter Advocates Plan 2017 Push for Funds to Build New Schools

Mareesa Nicosia

Omaha’s $100 Million ‘75 North’ Experiment: Improve a School By Building More Affordable Housing Nearby

Mareesa Nicosia

Ivanka Trump Visits Success Academy Day After Eva Moskowitz Says No to Ed Secretary Job

Mareesa Nicosia

Georgia Rejects State Intervention in Chronically Failing Schools

Mareesa Nicosia

The Mobile App Helping Kids Make Their Political Voices Heard — Even If They’re Too Young to Vote

Mareesa Nicosia

The Alliance for Quality Education Organizes March to Albany to Hand Cuomo $3.9B Bill in Overdue School Aid

Mareesa Nicosia

The Last Days of One Alaska Village, as Climate Change Swallows Its First U.S. School

Mareesa Nicosia

Photo Diary: A Week in Rural Alaska Where Climate Change Is Threatening a Village, Its School and Way of Life

Mareesa Nicosia

Exclusive: NYC Educators Recall the Day Trump Played Principal at P.S. 70 — and Offended Their Kids

Mareesa Nicosia

Summer Travel Program Teaches Inner-City NYC Teens About Life Overseas — and Closer to Home

Mareesa Nicosia

Uncommon Schools Recruiting Back Its Own Graduates to Diversify Its Teaching Network

Mareesa Nicosia

Video: Spending the Day With Some of America’s Smartest Students at a $150,000 Math Challenge

Mareesa Nicosia

Crisis Text Line Brings Help to Troubled Teens Where They Live — Their Phones

Mareesa Nicosia

The 74 Interview: Former Asst. U.S. Education Commish on Race, Reform and Saving Schools

Mareesa Nicosia

New Chief of Houston’s YES Prep on Growth, Discipline, Diversity and Broad Prize

Mareesa Nicosia

Video: Union Bosses Give ‘Teacher’ Advice on Covering Up Abuse, Rogue Mexican Vacation

Mareesa Nicosia

Want to Teach in Hawaii? They’re Hiring — and Probably Recruiting in a City Near You

Mareesa Nicosia

Families Eager But States May Not be Ready for New ESSA Rule on Tracking Military Students

Mareesa Nicosia

Persistently Struggling: Lovely Warren’s Audacious Plan to Save the Distressed Schools of Rochester, NY

Mareesa Nicosia

NY Lawmakers Fume as De Blasio Skips Schools Hearing, But Is Extended Mayoral Control Inevitable?

Mareesa Nicosia

Big IDEAS: High-Achieving South Texas Charter Network Reveals National Expansion Plan

Mareesa Nicosia

New York City’s First-Ever LGBT Student Liaison Aims To Set National Example

Mareesa Nicosia

NYC Refuses to Provide Information About $100 Million ‘Absent Teacher Reserve,’ Advocates Claim

Mareesa Nicosia

WATCH: DFER President Shavar Jeffries Talks Clinton, Sanders, the Future of Education Reform

Mark Keierleber & Mareesa Nicosia

‘Give Us Safer Schools’: 11 NYC Parents Decry City’s ‘Indifference’ to School Violence, File Federal Suit

Mark Keierleber & Mareesa Nicosia

How ‘Turnaround for Children’ Uses Science to Build Social, Emotional Skills in At-Risk Students

Mareesa Nicosia

Worried NYC Parents: It Takes a Village to Combat Violence in Public Schools, and Our Village is Failing

Mareesa Nicosia

‘If I Was a Parent… I Would Opt Out’: New NY Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa Comes Out Swinging

Mareesa Nicosia

John Kasich’s Ohio Win Gives Campaign New Life: Here’s his Stance on Education

Mareesa Nicosia

Ruben Diaz, Jr., the Up-and-Coming Bronx Leader Who Just Might Be NYC’s Next ‘Education Mayor’

Mareesa Nicosia

In Senate Confirmation, King Talks ESSA, Charters, College Loans and Federal Restraint

Mareesa Nicosia

From LA School Report: Educators Call For End to Raids on Undocumented Families, See Toll on Kids

Mareesa Nicosia

Where Have De Blasio’s Grand Education Plans Gone? NYC Students All But Absent from Annual Speech

Mareesa Nicosia

Forgive Flint’s School Debt Now: One Lawmaker’s Bid to Help the Kids Poisoned By Toxic Water

Mareesa Nicosia

A Principal (and Former Union Insider) Reflects on 25 Years of NYC’s ‘Exhausting’ Charter Wars

Mareesa Nicosia

A Catholic School Comeback in New York City — Just Don’t Call it That

Mareesa Nicosia

Mississippi’s Horrifying Trend of Punishing Students Through Restraint Could Be Coming to an End

Mareesa Nicosia

After Years of Squashing School Choice in Texas, the Speaker of the House May Be Singing a Different Tune

Mareesa Nicosia

Educate Nebraska: Inside the Ambitious Plan to Revive State’s Sputtering Charter Movement

Mareesa Nicosia

A ‘Start School Later’ Success Story in Missouri: Higher Graduation Rates, Fewer Suspensions

Mareesa Nicosia

TFA Life Cycle: A Growing ‘Second Generation’ of Teachers Who Were Once TFA Students

Mareesa Nicosia

Want to Talk NYC Schools with Your Mayor? Better RSVP Early, Talk Faster — and Slow Your Expectations

Mareesa Nicosia

Running Errands Instead of Reading: California Settles Suit Over Students Kept in “Sham” Classes

Mareesa Nicosia

The Student Financial Aid Maze: Navigating the FAFSA This Year Ahead of Big Changes in 2017-18

Mareesa Nicosia

Pennsylvania Schools, Desperate for Frozen Budget Funds, Join Forces to Pressure State for Emergency Help

Mareesa Nicosia

Apocalypse Now: Budget Impasse Leaves Broke Pennsylvania Schools Weeks from Shutting Down

Mareesa Nicosia

Schooling School Leaders: Houston ‘Education Entrepreneurship Program’ Brings Business Savvy into the Classroom

Mareesa Nicosia

Yet Another Albuquerque Scandal: Did Teacher Use Rope to Tie Special Needs Kindergartner to Chair?

Mareesa Nicosia

Sex Charges, Intimidation, Golden Parachutes: The Scandalous World of Albuquerque Schools

Mareesa Nicosia

De Blasio’s Education Push: Big Headlines for Computer Science, but Likely Bigger Impact with Reading Help

Mareesa Nicosia

The Forgotten Students, and Eroding School Districts, of California’s Drought

Mareesa Nicosia

Body Cams in Schools? Controversy Erupts After Iowa District Proposes New Push for Transparency

Mareesa Nicosia

New York Hopes ‘Collaboration’ Will Rescue 8,000 Students Trapped in Broken School District. But That Won’t Be Enough

Mareesa Nicosia

Summit: Bobby Jindal Says States Shouldn’t Need a Katrina to Turn Around Failing Schools

Mareesa Nicosia

Edmodo: 6 Things to Know About the ‘Facebook of Education’ As It Moves from Teachers to Parents — to Stockholders?

Mareesa Nicosia

NY’s Top Officials Demand E. Ramapo Superintendent Step Down – But That Won’t Solve District’s Problems

Mareesa Nicosia

The Next Vergara? New California Lawsuit Claims Teacher Evaluations Without Student Data Are Illegal

Mareesa Nicosia

Exclusive: New York’s Top Ed Policymakers Rush to Save Broken School District After Albany Falters

Mareesa Nicosia

Miami Turnaround: How One Ambitious Schools Chief Rescued America’s Fourth-Largest District

Mareesa Nicosia

New York’s New Ed Chief Talks Testing, Standards, Teacher Feedback

Mareesa Nicosia