Teacher Appreciation Week comes to a close today, but Hechinger's work endures as our journalists visit classrooms and schools, talk to students and teachers face-to-face, and then share their stories with you.

Throughout this week, we've asked our readers to support our newsroom in a sprint to raise $5,000 for these essential undertakings. We're extending our sprint through the weekend (we know we can do it!). 

This election year we plan to continue our ambitious efforts to lead the conversation on education coverage, from cradle to career. Already this year, our stories were republished by more than 700 different newsrooms; we launched the second season of our podcast, College Uncovered; we kept a close eye on the challenges with FAFSA that students and families faced; and, we launched our newest investigative series into hard-to-decipher school suspension data. 

Please give today what you can. It will fuel our journalism.