Erica Green is a correspondent in Washington who covers the U.S. Department of Education and federal education policy, with a focus on civil rights and educational equity in the nation’s schools.
Since joining The New York Times in 2017, Erica has covered the tenure of former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the impact of the Trump administration’s policies on the K-12 and higher education systems, and the toll that the coronavirus pandemic has taken on the country’s schools and students.
She has also conducted several investigations into issues of educational inequity across the country, including the dismal educational outcomes for Native American students snd the disproportionate disciplining of Black girls.
She co-authored the explosive Times investigation exposing leaders of a celebrated school in Louisiana who abused students and falsified their college applications to get them to Ivy League schools. The story was the subject of the debut episode of The Times‘ television show, The Weekly.
Erica’s education coverage at The New York Times won first place in the Education Writers Association’s beat reporting category in 2019. She had previously won first place in the association’s investigative reporting category in 2015.
Before joining The Times, Ms. Green covered education for The Baltimore Sun, where she produced award-winning coverage on a range of topics including school funding, special education, school violence, school segregation, and children in Maryland’s foster care and juvenile justice systems.
In addition to winning more than one dozen local and national awards for her education coverage at The Sun, Erica was also part of the Sun team named a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist for breaking news coverage of the death of Freddie Gray and the Baltimore riots that followed.
