Illinois law bans schools from fining students as discipline. So police have been doing it for them. @Jodiscohen and I explain how kids have been punished with thousands of tickets in 3 years for school fights, profanity and other teenage behavior. https://t.co/SdqcyVcOUV
Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump w/@MegsNewz and @Jodiscohen
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Some functions of the U.S. Department of Education will move to other federal agencies, @cbinkley reports. That would outsource managing funding streams for K-12 schools and colleges to the Department of Labor. (No news on the Office for Civil Rights yet.) https://t.co/Mj5tt4e88Y
Canary on the prairie?
Oklahoma looks to be the lab where Christianity & patriotism mix to create something that doesn't look like a separation of church and state — or convey a conventional rendering of history.
Deep reporting by @jsmithrichards.
https://t.co/rJdGZh69Xh
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Linda McMahon's "final mission?" It's not only to shut down the U.S. Department of Education. It's to dismantle the public school system as we know it. w/@MegsNewz https://t.co/fLuXZ8e4Ew
The ex-Chicago cop who got out of dozens of tickets by repeating a bogus story — that his girlfriend stole his BMW — pleaded guilty.
But there’s more: @Jodiscohen and I tracked pending court cases based on his policing.
More than 90 have been dropped.
https://t.co/9nb1jiVRCF
NEW: The Trump administration is going after funding for students who are both deaf and blind. Said one advocate: "How low can you go?" An important story by the reporting team of @Jodiscohen and @jsmithrichards of @propublica.
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UPDATE: The rural Ohio solar project that fossil fuel interests fought hard against (in part by using the local newspaper) was approved by the state today. Frasier Solar can move forward. Here's our previous story about this fight, for reference. https://t.co/KK5AgGOenT
Declining school enrollment has left 30% of Chicago public schools at least half-empty. The city’s failure to address this problem has come at a high cost to the district — and its students. https://t.co/hH5IZtM97X @MilaKoumpilova@jsmithrichards w/ @chalkbeatCHI
An update, three years after this investigation published: the Illinois legislature passed a bill to end police ticketing of students at school.
https://t.co/GX7OAbcflS
Illinois law bans schools from fining students as discipline. So police have been doing it for them. @Jodiscohen and I explain how kids have been punished with thousands of tickets in 3 years for school fights, profanity and other teenage behavior. https://t.co/SdqcyVcOUV
"Embarrassing"
"Tragedy"
"Tipping point"
"Waste of time and money"
Disheartening quotes run thru this story by @HeatherCherone@VernalColeman.
In sum: Chicago police consent decree has been an embarrassing waste of money, a tragedy in the making.
https://t.co/mGJnIYX2XA
NEW: Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs, a @propublica analysis found.
https://t.co/vXmUGxPWBU
FINALLY: After six years, we at the Chicago Tribune Guild have won our first contract.
We are so proud of what we ratified today with near unanimous support: raises, bonuses, salary minimums, AI protections, seniority rights & more. How did we get this done? (1/7)
The bunny wasn't a bomb.
And the threat wasn't credible.
Still this kid was handcuffed.
Important story from @AliyyaSwaby & @PaigePfleger.
A 13-Year-Old With Autism Was Arrested Under Tennessee’s School Threats Law https://t.co/Qaym1zxakn
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This story from @msanchezMIA and @mrym_jml should be required reading for every U.S. voter.
It's a rigorously reported, tender and ultimately heartbreaking look at what immigration REALLY is all about. I can't recommend it strongly enough.
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