2018
Green Eyeshade Awards (SPJ Southeastern US)
Politics Reporting – First Place: Memphis teachers and students recall Martin Luther King’s assassination 50 years later (Marta W. Aldrich, Caroline Bauman, Laura Faith Kebede)
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)