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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001415889-24-020888
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	3
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20230816
FILED AS OF DATE:		20240807
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20240807

REPORTING-OWNER:	

	OWNER DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Polcari Elizabeth
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0002011781
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		3
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-19860
		FILM NUMBER:		241183506

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		C/O LEGAL DEPT., SCHOLASTIC CORPORATION
		STREET 2:		557 BROADWAY
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10012

ISSUER:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			SCHOLASTIC CORP
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000866729
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	BOOKS: PUBLISHING OR PUBLISHING AND PRINTING [2731]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	04 Manufacturing
		IRS NUMBER:				133385513
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0531

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		555 BROADWAY
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10012
		BUSINESS PHONE:		2123436100

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		555 BROADWAY
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10012
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        <footnote id="F1">Includes 5,420 Restricted Stock Units.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">The grant becomes exercisable in three equal annual installments beginning with the first anniversary of the date of grant.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Represents Restricted Stock Units under the Scholastic Corporation Management Stock Purchase Plan in lieu of cash bonus to be converted into shares of Common Stock on a one-for-one basis upon expiration of the deferral period selected by the reporting person. Vests on the third anniversary of the award date. Price is equal to 75% of the lowest closing price for the underlying Common Stock during the quarter ended August 31, 2021.</footnote>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt" align="center"><b>&nbsp;POWER OF ATTORNEY</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; padding-left:48px; padding-right:48px; text-indent:28.8px; font-size:11pt">Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Andrew S. Hedden and Vanessa Hill, signing singly, the undersigned<font style="font-family:Arial Unicode MS,Times New Roman">&rsquo;</font>s true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-2px; text-indent:48px; width:72px; font-size:12pt; float:left">1.</p>
<p style="margin:0px; padding-left:72px; padding-right:76.8px; text-indent:-2px; font-size:11pt">prepare, execute for and on behalf of the undersigned and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the <font style="font-family:Arial Unicode MS,Times New Roman">&ldquo;</font>SEC<font style="font-family:Arial Unicode MS,Times New Roman">&rdquo;</font>) a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-2px; text-indent:48px; width:72px; font-size:12pt; float:left">2.</p>
<p style="margin:0px; padding-left:72px; padding-right:76.8px; text-indent:-2px; font-size:11pt">take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact<font style="font-family:Arial Unicode MS,Times New Roman">&rsquo;</font>s discretion.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px; padding-left:48px; padding-right:48px; text-indent:48px; font-size:11pt">The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact<font style="font-family:Arial Unicode MS,Times New Roman">&rsquo;</font>s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. &nbsp;</p>
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<p style="margin:0px; padding-left:48px; padding-right:48px; text-indent:48px; font-size:11pt">This Power of Attorney shall supersede any previously executed powers of attorney and remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned<font style="font-family:Arial Unicode MS,Times New Roman">&rsquo;</font>s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to each foregoing attorney-in-fact.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px; padding-left:48px; padding-right:48px; text-indent:48px; font-size:11pt">IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 6<sup>th</sup> day of February, 2024. &nbsp;</p>
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<p style="margin:0px; padding-left:336px; text-indent:48px; font-size:11pt"><u>/s/ Elizabeth Polcari</u></p>
<p style="margin:0px; padding-left:336px; text-indent:48px; font-size:11pt">Elizabeth Polcari</p>
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