Elizabeth Green discusses key trends in America's classrooms, her personal journey from book author to startup co-founder of Chalkbeat, what it takes to start a news organization online and why other news organizations are following similar models.

Chalkbeat is a nonprofit local-first education news organization, reporting on the effort to improve schools for children who have historically lacked access to quality education. With bureaus in eight locations, Chalkbeat is recognized as a leading model to address the crisis in local news. As the crisis accelerates, Chalkbeat is moving quickly to expand its model for high-impact, knowledge-based, and sustainable local news -- both by growing its education coverage to 10 new states and by adding new beats. Since launching in 2014, Chalkbeat’s reporting has spurred changes in education funding, legislation, policy, and practice and is regularly cited or republished in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Vox, and more.

Elizabeth Green is the CEO and co-founder of Chalkbeat. She also co-founded the American Journalism Project, the first venture philanthropy firm dedicated to local news. Elizabeth’s book Building a Better Teacher was a New York Times bestseller and notable book of 2014. She has also written about education issues for The New York Times Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, and other publications. Elizabeth has been a Spencer Fellow in education journalism at Columbia University and an Abe Journalism Fellow studying education in Japan.

Learn more about Chalkbeat here: https://www.chalkbeat.org/.

Moderated by Ben Monnie.