As the Trump administration dramatically reshapes the American public education system, ProPublica’s reporters are investigating how these changes affect people across the country.
We need your help to keep track of developments at schools and colleges in your area.
Hundreds of people have already joined our source network on education, and their insights have helped us report on important issues. By signing up, you can help us ensure that our stories about your community are as comprehensive and impactful as possible.
At the moment, we are especially interested in learning about expansions of private, religious and virtual schools or homeschooling in your community. We also want to hear about any changes in public schools, from curriculum to loss of funding, and how they may be affecting students with disabilities, English language learners and low-income families.
We are bringing on a higher education reporter and will expand our coverage of the turmoil facing colleges and universities.
We’re still interested in longer-standing issues, too, such as how schools are navigating artificial intelligence and student mental health.
Fill out the brief form below to tell us what we should be covering or to stay in touch as changes unfold. (We’ve updated the form, so it should take just a few minutes.) We won’t be able to respond to everyone personally, but we may reach out in the future if we are researching a topic or reporting in your area.
If you work or worked for the U.S. Department of Education, please do not fill out the form. Instead, use Signal to contact reporters Jennifer Smith Richards at jsmithrichards.93, Jodi Cohen at jodireporter.88 or Megan O’Matz at 414-207-6225.
If you are writing to us about the department’s Office for Civil Rights, please fill out our form on that topic instead.
