EWA Reporting Fellowship: Applications Open for 22nd Class

The Education Writers Association is pleased to announce a call for proposals for its 22nd class of EWA Reporting Fellows. These micro-fellowships provide financial awards to journalists to undertake ambitious, enterprise reporting projects.

To help journalists boost their reporting on key education issues, the 22nd round will offer up to $5,000 to support stand-alone stories and smaller-scale projects on early childhood education, K-12 or postsecondary education. Recipients are also eligible to apply for additional funding in future fellowship rounds.

As of 2026, EWA has supported nearly 200 reporting projects and provided more than $1.2 million in financial awards, resulting in innovative, impactful education stories in various media in communities around the country.

EWA selects reporting fellows through a competitive application process. Recipients have significant flexibility in how to use the funds, including travel for reporting, relief from regular newsroom duties or attending workshops.

We are looking for projects that address any of the following:

Early Childhood Education Topics

• Early learning, such as policy, systems-building, governance, funding and/or the early learning workforce.

K-12 Topics

• K-12 special education, including learning disabilities (such as dyslexia and dyscalculia) and related neurological processing challenges. Stories might focus on students with specific diagnoses, as well as challenges for students who face a disconnect between their learning styles and how instruction is typically delivered. Projects might also focus on issues related to equity and access.
• K-12 reporting on arts education, after-school learning, summer learning, and the work and challenges of school principals.

Higher Education Topics

• Efforts to remove structural barriers for low-income students in postsecondary settings.
• Efforts to help students navigate key transitions in their postsecondary journey, such as through workforce training, transferring between institutions and entering or re-entering the workforce.
• Efforts to improve and expand postsecondary access and success in rural areas, including through training and connecting students to good jobs.
• Efforts to support higher education programs for incarcerated students.
• Efforts to expand postsecondary pathways to meaningful employment.
• Efforts to reform higher education, such as improving the credit mobility process.

The deadline to apply is 8 p.m. Eastern on Monday, March 16. Applicants will be notified of their status by mid-April. For more about the fellowship opportunity, including a link to the application, start here.