Hannah Natanson

Washington, D.C.

National K-12 education

Education: Harvard University, BA

Hannah Natanson is a reporter covering national K-12 education. She won a Peabody in 2024 for a podcast series on school gun violence. She was part of a team of Post journalists awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for coverage of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Latest from Hannah Natanson

Trump vowed to push schools to the right on gender and race. Now he can.

Schools that don’t comply may risk losing federal funding.

November 17, 2024

The nation’s freshmen reckon with a mass school shooting by one of their own

After the Apalachee High shooting, 14-year-olds worried they’d be next. Sought places to hide. And fixated on one fact: The alleged killer, and both slain students, were their age.

October 29, 2024
Charlee and Caleb Amaro, who live just outside Kansas City, Missouri, struggled to process news of the shooting at Apalachee.

How America’s youngest voters feel about casting their first ballots

Teens say activities and classes they’re taking have influenced how they will cast their first ever vote.

October 28, 2024

    The nation’s freshmen process the Georgia school shooting

    After the Apalachee High shooting, 14-year-olds worried they’d be next. They fixated on one fact: the alleged killer — and slain students — were their age.

    October 27, 2024

    The making of an alleged school shooter: Missed warnings and years of neglect

    Interviews with family members and a review of private texts and public documents open a window on a 14-year-old’s path to alleged gunman at Apalachee High School.

    October 3, 2024

    Security alerts at Apalachee helped save lives, officials say

    But many questions still remain about whether more could have been done to prevent the shooting.

    September 6, 2024
    People embrace at a makeshift memorial after a shooting at Apalachee High Schoo in Winder, Ga.

    Cellphone bans spread in schools amid growing mental health worries

    More states and school districts are forbidding or restricting students’ access to cellphones.

    August 27, 2024

    Columbia University president resigns after drawing ire over Israel-Gaza protests

    Columbia President Minouche Shafik resigned her position, ending a tenure marred by backlash over handling of pro-Palestinian protests on campus last spring.

    August 14, 2024
    Minouche Shafik, then president of Columbia University, testified before Congress in April. (Haiyun Jiang for The Washington Post)

    UCLA can’t let protests block Jewish students from campus, judge rules

    A judge ruled that UCLA cannot allow protesters to block Jewish students from campus access.

    August 14, 2024
    Tents on an encampment on the UCLA campus after clashes between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups on May 1.

    Walz’s education record: Pro-union, covid cautious and big jump in funding

    Tim Walz’s liberal education policies in Minnesota on race and gender protections and school funding — and opposition to vouchers — gained teachers’ support and ire from the GOP.

    August 10, 2024
    Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signs an education budget bill into law alongside students in May 2019.