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Matt Barnum, a national reporter at Chalkbeat, has left and joined The Wall Street Journal on the education team.
Previously, Barnum was a Spencer fellow in education journalism at Columbia University. He also worked as a staff writer at online audio and video media company The 74 Media in New York.
He also taught at Colorado Springs Harrison District 2 Schools.
Connect with Barnum on X/Twitter.