See the full list of 2025 EWA Awards category winners below.
Note: The background information and details of how these prize-winning stories were conceived and reported was provided to EWA by the journalist entrants and their newsrooms.
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Asher Lehrer-Small
Houston Landing
Accountability Coverage of Houston’s State Takeover
Marcela Rodrigues
The Boston Globe
Marcela Rodrigues’ Coverage of ICE Raids and Schools
Jill Barshay
The Hechinger Report
How Trump Gutted Education Research
Caitlin Esch, Stephanie Hughes, Nancy Marshall-Genzer, Minju Park & Jayk Cherry
Marketplace
Inside the Movement to Teach Kids About Money
Dylan Peers McCoy, Lee V. Gaines, Eric Weddle, Nicole Cohen & Lauren Migaki
WFYI & NPR
Reporting on Special Education
Liz Bowie, Greg Morton, Ryan Little & Allan James Vestal
The Banner
Missing the Bus: How Baltimore Failed a Generation of Students Struggling to Get to School
Lauren Weber, Caitlin Gilbert, Dylan Moriarty & Joshua Lott
The Washington Post
U.S. Vaccination Rates Are Plunging. Look up Where Your School Stands.
Megan Tagami
Honolulu Civil Beat
Half Of Hawaiʻi Kids Can’t Swim. Little Is Being Done To Help Them.
Mandy McLaren
The Boston Globe
A Promise Unkept
Alyson Klein & Visuals and Immersive Experiences Team
Education Week
‘Pairing Schools’: One Strategy, Two Very Different Outcomes
Becky Z. Dernbach
Sahan Journal
They Came to the U.S. to Attend Middle School. Then the Immigration Crackdown Began.
Casey Parks
The Washington Post
For Young Transgender Runner, Racing Wasn’t the Hardest Thing
Neal Morton
The Hechinger Report
How a Tribe Won a Legal Battle Against The Federal Bureau of Indian Education — and Still Lost
Jeremy Turley & Lauren Wagner
Flatwater Free Press & The 74
Despite the Law, Nebraska School Districts Denied Transfers to Special Ed Kids
Emily Schwing
KYUK Public Media, ProPublica & NPR
Frozen Out: Alaska’s Schools Wait for Funding
Meredith Kolodner, Marina Villeneuve & Jackie Mader
The Hechinger Report
Left Out
Emily Hanford, Christopher Peak, Curtis Gilbert, Andy Kruse, Kate Martin, Olivia Chilkoti, Carmela Guaglianone, Chris Julin, Derek Ramirez, Tom Scheck & Jane Helmke
American Public Media | APM Reports
Sold a Story
Herald Staff
The Brown Daily Herald
Two Killed, Nine Injured in Dec. 13 Mass Shooting at Brown University
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