Reporter Anna Wolfe won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing Mississippi welfare fraud involving former governor Phil Bryant and Brett Favre.
Now, she's facing potential jail time for refusing to reveal her sources 👇
https://t.co/sXBXGoAlMe
I really wish rich, out-of-touch folks who nothing about education would just stop. 1) Read the fine print. THIS IS A GOVT VOUCHER PROGRAM. Voucher programs have not been shown to improve results for poor Black children because most cannot get into high-quality private schools. 2) Read the fine print. All of the money is coming from taxpayers, ie. the government. Roc Nation is not funding this, it is just launching an educational campaign that maybe it is being paid to do. I'm researching. But certainly, it's involvement is to convince poor Black parents to leave the public schools. 3) What do you think that $300 million could do for improving those low-performing public schools? 4) It is a lie that these programs do not take from public-school funding. Fewer kids in the classroom means fewer dollars to the school. 5) This is a windfall to the city's private schools at the expense of the public ones that most kids attend.
I'll take this one.
The idea that affirmative action or diversity, equity & inclusion policies equal lower standards is something that a lot of people believe.
Instead of citing what "I believe" like Elon did, let's use facts & a something I like to called "math"
A thread.
Report for America, which funds of hundreds of local journalists, will no longer support positions at Gannett, Alden, or any newspapers owned by private equity or hedge funds because "that business model isn’t the future for robust local news." https://t.co/dVAE42a1M9
“We did remote learning for one and a half years, I don’t see why people are making such a big deal of one day,” said Spencer Katz, a 16-year-old junior. “It wasn’t sunshine and rainbows for them [migrant families] either. It wasn’t a handout, it was like basic human needs."
The gruesome discovery of 215 bodies buried in unmarked graves behind a jail outside of Jackson, Mississippi, has left a community in disbelief.
@IAmAmnaNawaz reports.
This is Amy Hadley & her kids, Kayla & Noah. In June 2022, police tossed dozens of tear gas bombs into their home, smashed windows, punched holes in the wall & more.
A cop's error led them to Amy's home. She hadn't committed a crime.
The gov't won't pay her back. A thread.
Alaska has the third-highest suicide rate in the nation, and the numbers are especially high in the northwest Arctic. But what if all of those "suicides" are not actually suicide? @kylehopkinsAK digs in: https://t.co/RrUPBxZD1P
A Mississippi mother who spent 7 months searching for her son discovered that an off-duty officer ran him over less than an hour after he left the house.
Authorities then buried him without notifying his family https://t.co/jMEgn4NeVX
Bernie Smilovitz asked Dan Campbell a question about him having nightmares about Lamar Jackson and not only did he give a great answer, but offered condolences to Smilovitz on the passing of his wife.
Class act.
Miguel Cabrera said he’s playing today, tomorrow, taking Thursday off, and playing Friday, Saturday and Sunday to wrap up his career with #Tigers at Comerica Park
"The criminal charge in this case was due to Cutler’s grazing of the groin area of a young male who Cutler supervised at work," Charlevoix County Prosecutor Christopher D. Tholen said on Monday.
https://t.co/r6Oem3qtqs
The amazing inside story of how the Navy essentially threw $100 billion in the trash on a ship that never worked, blowing past countless warning signs. Who benefited? Defense contractors and politicians. https://t.co/mkXLkVQLwm
Because a 19 year old didn't say the word journey which is what he meant to say, we are going to act like Keon didn't give us his all while he was MSU? Yall mad at the wrong guy.
Texas prisons raise prices 50% for fucking water for the people locked up in their unairconditioned state prisons as the heat wave continues and it hits over 100°.
https://t.co/JxRXno83Vp