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EDlection 2016

The 74’s ongoing coverage of state-level education news, issues and leaders in the run-up to the 2016 elections.

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Campbell Brown: On Betsy DeVos

Campbell Brown

Bradford — Why Do I Hope DeVos Boosts School Vouchers and Scholarships? Because They Changed My Life

Derrell Bradford

Analysis: How Betsy DeVos Could Scramble the Ideology and Politics of Education Reform

Matt Barnum

Analysis: Did Senate ‘Nuclear Option’ Help DeVos Rise Over Rhee for Education Secretary Nod?

Carolyn Phenicie

Common Core, Trumped: Ed Secretary Hopeful DeVos Aligns With Pence in Pushing Local Standards

Naomi Nix

Trump Picks His Education Secretary: The First 6 Things to Know About Betsy DeVos

Kate Stringer

Analysis: Trumpism Goes to School — What Our New President Means for Local Choice and Control

Carolyn Phenicie

Snyder: Make School Safe Again — Why We Must Speak Out Against Surge in Election-Related Bullying

Steve Snyder

Make Our Schools Safe Again: 500 Scary Incidents (and Counting) of Election-Inspired Bullying at School

Mitchell Trinka

Rees: Elections Come and Go, but Movements — Like School Choice — Endure

Nina Rees

Whitmire—Why Question 2 Lost in Massachusetts: The Better the Charter, the Bigger the Threat

Richard Whitmire

What Will Trump Do on Education? Seeking Clues on Common Core, School Choice, ESSA

Carolyn Phenicie

Gary Herbert, Who Changed Positions on the Common Core, Wins Utah Governor’s Race

Naomi Nix

Oklahoma Voters Reject Initiative to Raise Teacher Pay

Matt Barnum

Massachusetts Voters Say No to Charter School Expansion

Mark Keierleber

Georgia Rejects State Intervention in Chronically Failing Schools

Mareesa Nicosia

California Brings Back Bilingual Education

Kate Stringer

Sen. Pat Toomey Re-elected in Pennsylvania

Carolyn Phenicie

Education at the Polls, Coast to Coast: 22 Big Races and Ballot Questions to Watch Tuesday Night

Carolyn Phenicie

Oregon Ballot Measure Looks to Turn Around One of the Worst Graduation Rates in the U.S.

Carolyn Phenicie

Clinton vs. Trump: The Final Education Election Guide

Carolyn Phenicie

California Voters to Decide Future of Bilingual Education for Country’s Largest ELL Population

Carolyn Phenicie

EDlection 2016: Montana’s Schools Chief Vying to Be First Native American Woman in Congress

Carolyn Phenicie

Moral Duty or Impending Threat? Georgia Ballot to Include Proposed State Takeover District

Carolyn Phenicie

How a Manhattan High School’s Turnaround Story Could Shape Trump’s (and Clinton’s) Education Plan

Naomi Nix

Trump Goes All In on School Choice in First Major Education Policy Speech

Carolyn Phenicie

Trump’s ‘Education Week’ Calculation: A New Pivot to Woo Reluctant Republicans and Swing State Minorities

Carolyn Phenicie

EDlection 2016: 18 Memorable Education Conversations That Erupted Around the Conventions

Steve Snyder

New Video: Gov. Scott Walker Talks Education and School Choice With The 74 at the RNC

Carolyn Phenicie

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

Mareesa Nicosia

Who’s Advising Donald Trump on Education Anyway? Is Anyone?

Carolyn Phenicie

Testing Wars and the Educational Whack-a-Mole Facing Indiana’s Next State Schools Chief

Carolyn Phenicie

Baltimore’s Next Mayor: 13 Democrats Who Want the Job, and What School Challenges Await Them

Carolyn Phenicie

Funny Or Trump: Watch the Hilarious Online Spoof That Calls Out GOP Rhetoric on Common Core Standards

Mark Keierleber

John Kasich’s Education Record: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Matt Barnum

In the Shadows of Wyoming’s Oil and Coal HeyDey, An Education Funding Crisis

Mark Keierleber

From Arne Duncan on Down: 23 Critical Education Questions for the Presidential Candidates

Carolyn Phenicie & Matt Barnum

WATCH: Desperate Nevada Parents Hope Courts Uphold Education Savings Accounts

Mark Keierleber

And Then There Were Seven: What We Know About Every Candidate’s Education Agenda

Carolyn Phenicie

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

Inside New Hampshire’s Innovative Push to Change the Way We Test Students

Mark Keierleber