2017
AERA Awards for Excellence in Education Research
Excellence in Media Reporting on Education Research: Matt Barnum
Colorado Press Association
Best Website – First Place: Chalkbeat Colorado
Best Series – Second Place: Jeffco School Closures (Yesenia Robles)
- Disadvantaged students more likely to be impacted by Jeffco school closures
- For Jeffco students with special needs enrolled at schools slated for closure, more questions than answers
- Why Jeffco hasn’t considered academic performance in picking schools to close
- Gifted and talented center at Wheat Ridge High School on chopping block as part of Jeffco budget cuts
- Jeffco board votes to close one elementary school in budget cuts, sparing four others
Education Writers Association Awards
Beat Reporting – Winner: Erin Einhorn, Chalkbeat Detroit
Single-Topic News or Feature – Winner: The Portfolio Model (Matt Barnum, Laura Faith Kebede, Dylan Peers McCoy)
Investigative Reporting – Finalist: The Broken Promise of Indiana’s Online Schools (Shaina Cavazos)
Best in Indiana Journalism (SPJ Indiana)
Coverage of Children’s Issues – Second Place: Preschool expansion in Indiana (Shaina Cavazos)
- How a computer program designed for home-based preschool in Utah could get a piece of Indiana’s education budget
- Lawmakers want more research before they spend big on preschool. When it comes to vouchers, there’s no such hesitation.
Education Reporting – Second Place: Dylan Peers McCoy
- How vouchers transformed Indiana: Private schools now live or die by test scores, too
- Indianapolis Public Schools leaders stripped a traditional public school of its teachers union — and few saw it coming
- Millions of extra dollars go to Indianapolis magnet schools that have fewer poor students
Coverage of Minority Issues – Third Place: Newcomer School (Dylan Peers McCoy)
- Trump’s immigration policies leave empty seats at an Indianapolis school
- Teaching when students are full of fear: Inside Indiana’s first school for new immigrants
Investigative Reporting – Third Place: Indiana Online Charter Schools (Shaina Cavazos)
- As students signed up, online school hired barely any teachers — but founder’s company charged it millions
- Indiana online charter schools need more oversight. These 3 changes could help.
- Gov. Eric Holcomb says Indiana’s low-rated online charter schools need ‘immediate attention and action’
Excellence in Journalism (SPJ Detroit)
General News – First Place: How Detroit’s splintered school system makes it more difficult to educate children (Erin Einhorn)
Feature Story – Third Place: An inside look at school transformation efforts in Detroit (Erin Einhorn)
Green Eyeshade Awards (SPJ Southeastern US)
Non-Deadline Reporting – Second Place: Meet the Memphis educator leading the charge to take down her city’s Confederate monuments (Laura Faith Kebede)
Top of the Rockies (SPJ Region 9)
Education: Enterprise Reporting – First Place: Life in a child care desert: What one Denver neighborhood can teach us about solving a national problem (Ann Schimke, Yesenia Robles)
Education: General Reporting – First Place: Inside the rocky rollout of Denver Public Schools’ new school closure policy (Melanie Asmar)
Education: Enterprise Reporting – Second Place: Jeffco Public Schools suspended an average of four young students a day last year — and district officials are paying attention (Ann Schimke)
Education: General Reporting – Second Place: What a dearth of teachers means for a school in a one-stoplight Colorado town (Nicholas Garcia)
General Website Excellence – Third Place: Chalkbeat Colorado
2016
Education Writers Association Awards
Ronald Moskowitz Prize for Outstanding Beat Reporting: Erin Einhorn, Chalkbeat Detroit
Beat Reporting – Winner: Erin Einhorn, Chalkbeat Detroit
Beat Reporting – Finalist: Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado
Best in Indiana Journalism (SPJ Indiana)
Coverage of Minority Issues – Third Place & Features Writing – Third Place: The end of busing in Indianapolis: 35 years later, a more segregated school system calls it quits (Shaina Cavazos)
Top of the Rockies (SPJ Region 9)
Education: General Reporting – Second Place: Why Aurora Public Schools wants to kick this online charter school out (Nicholas Garcia)
Politics: Enterprise Reporting – Second Place: State board met illegally with commissioner (Nicholas Garcia)
Education: Enterprise Reporting – Third Place: For a longtime Denver charter school, one more chance at rebirth (Melanie Asmar)
2015
Education Writers Association Awards
Ronald Moskowitz Prize for Outstanding Beat Reporting: Patrick Wall, Chalkbeat New York
Beat Reporting – Winner: Patrick Wall, Chalkbeat New York
Investigative Reporting – Finalist: Colorado’s First School-by-School Immunization Database (Ann Schimke)
Best in Indiana Journalism (SPJ Indiana)
Non-Deadline Story or Series – First Place: Lost in Translation (Shaina Cavazos, Hayleigh Colombo, Scott Elliott, Stephanie Wang – IndyStar, Eric Weddle – WFYI)
Education Reporting – First Place: The basics of school funding: Difficulty defining fairness (Scott Elliott, Shaina Cavazos)
Journalism Website – Second Place: Chalkbeat Indiana
Education Reporting – Third Place: Rich school, poor school: IPS push to even out funding could bring big changes (Dylan Peers McCoy)
Investigative Reporting – Third Place: School offered $100 rewards for new students (Hayleigh Colombo)
2014
Education Writers Association Awards
Investigative Reporting – Winner: The revolving schoolhouse door: Principal turnover in Denver, investigated (Monique Collins, Sarah Glen, Kate Schimel)
Single-Topic News or Feature – Finalist: A Promise Unfulfilled at Manual High School (Nicholas Garcia, Alan Gottlieb, Kate Schimel)
Best in Indiana Journalism (SPJ Indiana)
Coverage of Minority Issues – First Place: Tough discipline at state takeover schools falls more heavily on minority children (Shaina Cavazos, Scott Elliott)
Education Reporting – First Place: Key learning community aims to rekindle past glory (Scott Elliott)
Coverage of Minority Issues – Second Place: Washington Township embraces International Baccalaureate to help serve English language learners (Shaina Cavazos)
Education Reporting – Second Place: Indiana superintendent hoping film will launch an education movement (Hayleigh Colombo)
2013
Education Writers Association Awards
Single-Topic News or Feature – Second Prize: Education Issues in NYC Mayor’s Race (Philissa Cramer, Sarah Darville, Geoffrey Decker, Patrick Wall)
2011
Education Writers Association Awards
Journalism Blogging – Second Prize: GothamSchools (Chris Arp, Jessica Campbell, Philissa Cramer, Rachel Cromidas, Sarah Darville, Geoffrey Decker, Elizabeth Green, Anna Phillips, Maura Walz)
2010
Education Writers Association Awards
Journalism Blogging – First Prize: GothamSchools (Philissa Cramer, Kim Gittleson, Elizabeth Green, Anna Phillips, Maura Walz)
Community Blogging – First Prize: Classroom Tales: A Diary, GothamSchools (Ruben Brosbe, Philissa Cramer)
2009
Education Writers Association Awards
Blogs – First Prize: GothamSchools (Philissa Cramer, Elizabeth Green, Anna Phillips, Maura Walz)