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Sarah Butrymowicz

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Sarah Butrymowicz oversees and contributes to The Hechinger Report’s investigative and data work covering all levels of education, from early childhood to K-12 to higher education. She has worked at Hechinger since 2010 and, in that time, her work has appeared in dozens of news outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA TODAY. Butrymowicz has won several journalism awards, including the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for investigative reporting and two Front Page awards from the Newswomen’s Club of New York. She received a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

butrymowicz@hechingerreport.org
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Posted inElementary to High School

In New York state, students can be suspended for up to an entire school year

Avatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz February 11, 2023February 9, 2023
Posted inHigher Education

Trucking companies train you on the job. Just don’t try to quit.

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz and Meredith Kolodner April 5, 2022June 15, 2022
Posted inHigher Education

Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California college students

Avatar photoPete D'AmatoAvatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz, Pete D'Amato, Meredith Kolodner and Colleen Shalby March 17, 2022April 10, 2022
Posted inHigher Education

‘It’s a shell game’: How under-the-radar companies help for-profit colleges stay in business

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz and Meredith Kolodner November 15, 2021November 30, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School

First nationwide look at racial breakdown of career education confirms deep divides

Avatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz September 16, 2021October 29, 2024
Posted inHigher Education

City University of New York reverses its policy on withholding transcripts over unpaid bills

Avatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz August 13, 2021August 13, 2021
Posted inLoans

Left in the lurch by for-profit college direct loans

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz and Meredith Kolodner March 25, 2021August 26, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School

Sent home early: Lost learning in special education

Avatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz March 25, 2021February 9, 2022
Posted inCoronavirus and Education

How the pandemic has altered school discipline — perhaps forever

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Caroline Preston and Sarah Butrymowicz February 20, 2021February 18, 2021
Posted inFuture of Learning

The in-school push to fight misinformation from the outside world

Avatar photoJaveria Salman by Sarah Butrymowicz and Javeria Salman February 11, 2021March 1, 2021

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