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@propublica.org
www.propublica.org/people/jodi-cohen
ProPublica has sued the U.S. Department of Education W/
@jsmithrichards.bsky.social
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ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools
Under Secretary Linda McMahon, the work of the Office for Civil Rights, which aims to protect students from discrimination, is cloaked in secrecy.
https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-office-foia-lawsuit
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So proud of my long-time reporting partner and friend
@stacystclair.bsky.social
This is great for the Tribune and great for Chicago!
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/06/t...
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Chicago Tribune names newsroom veteran as new managing editor
The Chicago Tribune named newsroom veteran Stacy St. Clair as the newspaper’s new managing editor Friday.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/06/tribune-managing-editor/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQKNjYyODU2ODM3OQABHjGU6NfZaGCKo4EsxpvaigDITXbMmavjNNW5yI-hRBreupDNKNryCfQ8f57m_aem_rZ-JKuZSVYBm1ewLawwtbw#mlbeu0vlmguowyik8ga
24 days ago
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25 days ago
Last night,
@repbonamici.bsky.social
and 70 other House members sent a letter to Linda McMahon and Kimberly Richey, the head of the Office for Civil Rights, urging them to address the backlog of discrimination complaints. "We are deeply troubled by these reports, and so is the public," it said.
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Heather Cherone
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New documents show a raid on a South Shore apartment complex was prompted by claims that immigrants were squatting in units — not that it had been taken over by Tren de Aragua — and was blessed by the complex's owner,
@melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
&
@jodiscohen.bsky.social
report for
@propublica.org
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The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building
The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-raid-landlord-tren-de-aragua
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BREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building
The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-raid-landlord-tren-de-aragua
26 days ago
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29 days ago
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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
https://www.propublica.org/article/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-garcia?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Cengiz Yar
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I’ve been in Minneapolis the last few days reporting on the ICE raids happening across the city. This morning federal agents shot and killed a man, identified by the AP as Alex Pretti. This marks the third shooting by federal agents since Operation Metro Surge started in Minnesota last month.
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www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵
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We at
@propublica.org
looked into the immigration raid that happened in Chicago's South Shore in late September. We found many of the Venezuelans detained in that raid, looked into them, and spoke to several of them.
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4 months ago
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-fbi-raids-no-criminal-charges
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Carrie Brown
4 months ago
"Federal prosecutors have not filed criminal charges against anyone who was arrested. Nor have they revealed any evidence showing that two immigrants arrested in the building belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang, or even provided their names."
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In Sept,
@homelandgov.bsky.social
raided a Chicago complex and took dozens of immigrants — under the cover of darkness. Officials called it a victory against terrorism. A team
@propublica.org
set out to check the claims, and find and talk with the Venezuelans:
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-fbi-raids-no-criminal-charges
4 months ago
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5 months ago
"Following public outcry, the U.S. Department of Education has restored funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, about a month after cutting it..."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign
Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization th...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-education-department-deafblind-students-funding-reversal
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U.S. Department of Education reverses decision and will fund programs for students who are both deaf and blind. But the money will flow a different way.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign
Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization th...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-education-department-deafblind-students-funding-reversal
5 months ago
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🚨Come work with me at
@propublica.org
! We are hiring a reporter to cover higher education — the best beat there is. 🏫
job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
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Higher Education Reporter, National
New York City, United States
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4603813006
5 months ago
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Chicago prosecutors have dropped nearly 100 pending cases against people accused of drunk and dangerous driving and other traffic offenses. Why? The ex-Chicago cop involved in their arrests lied and forged records to dodge his own traffic offenses.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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Chicago Cop Who Falsely Blamed an Ex-Girlfriend for Dozens of Traffic Tickets Pleads Guilty but Avoids Prison
Retired officer Jeffrey Kriv acknowledged repeatedly lying under oath to avoid paying dozens of speeding and other traffic tickets. Prosecutors have dropped at least 92 cases in which Kriv was a key w...
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-cop-jeffrey-kriv-pleads-guilty-avoids-jail
5 months ago
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Former cop Jeffrey Kriv has pleaded guilty to lying under oath and forging reports to get out of speeding/other tickets. And with his credibility at issue, prosecutors now have dropped 92 cases where he had been an arresting officer,
@propublica.org
found.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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Chicago Cop Who Falsely Blamed an Ex-Girlfriend for Dozens of Traffic Tickets Pleads Guilty but Avoids Prison
Retired officer Jeffrey Kriv acknowledged repeatedly lying under oath to avoid paying dozens of speeding and other traffic tickets. Prosecutors have dropped at least 92 cases in which Kriv was a key w...
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-cop-jeffrey-kriv-pleads-guilty-avoids-jail
5 months ago
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6 months ago
🚨 JOURNALISM JOB ALERT🚨
@propublica.org
is hiring a reporter for our amazing Midwest team! Read some of the key details below and apply here:
job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
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ProPublica
6 months ago
NEW: After the
@northdakotamonitor.com
and ProPublica reported on how oil companies take millions in royalties from mineral owners, more than a half-dozen lawmakers are now proposing a committee to study the issue and suggest solutions. “Something has to be done,” one legislator said.
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Some North Dakota Lawmakers Say Change Is Needed to Protect Oil and Gas Royalty Owners
For years, North Dakota legislators rejected proposals to protect mineral owners from oil and gas companies withholding their earnings. “Something has to be done,” one lawmaker now says.
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-lawmakers-oil-gas-royalty-proposals?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1757938503&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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ProPublica
6 months ago
NEW: Federal funding for organizations that help students with hearing and vision loss across eight states will stop at the end of the month, according to letters sent by a top Education Dept. official and obtained by ProPublica. By
@jodiscohen.bsky.social
@jsmithrichards.bsky.social
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Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push
Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dei-students-education-deaf-blind-grant-funding?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=9-10
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@jsmithrichards.bsky.social
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@propublica.org
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Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push
Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dei-students-education-deaf-blind-grant-funding
6 months ago
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Why some Illinois farmers have “one foot stuck in the mud, the other in government bureaucracy.” Impressive story, with impressive photographs published by
@propublica.org
and
@capitolnewsil.bsky.social
Part 1 of 2:
www.propublica.org/article/illi...
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The Federal Farm Policy Trap: Why Some Farmers Are Stuck Raising Crops That No Longer Thrive
Some farmers keep growing in flood- and drought-prone fields because subsidies soften the losses, while federal programs meant to help them change course have been underfunded and mired in bureaucracy...
https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-farming-soy-corn-flooding-subsidies-insurance
6 months ago
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A billboard to recruit Proud Boys members has popped up above the cornfields in rural Illinois — and next to a high school.
capitolnewsillinois.com/news/billboa...
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Billboard promoting far-right group Proud Boys springs up in southern Illinois
Article Summary A billboard promoting the Proud Boys, a right-wing extremist group, has been put up near a high school
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/billboard-promoting-far-right-group-proud-boys-springs-up-in-southern-illinois/
7 months ago
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North Dakota doesn’t protect its private mineral owners from losing their royalty income. Other states do. Here’s the latest
@northdakotamonitor.com
and
@propublica.org
story.
www.propublica.org/article/nort...
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Some States Restrict the Oil Industry From Taking Mineral Owners’ Earnings. Not North Dakota.
At least seven states limit the costs oil and gas companies can pass on to the people they lease drilling rights from. Here’s how North Dakota differs when it comes to protecting the interests of mine...
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-oil-mineral-rights-comparison
7 months ago
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ProPublica
7 months ago
NEW: An investigation by ProPublica and
@texastribune.org
found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public. By Lexi Churchill and
@emsimani.bsky.social
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Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.
An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state law...
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-vouchers-private-schools-conflicts-of-interest?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=8-13
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Melissa Sanchez
7 months ago
1/ Early on in President Trump’s second term, I spent a few weeks observing Chicago’s immigration court to get a sense of how things were changing. One afternoon in March, the case of a 27-year-old Venezuelan asylum-seeker caught my attention. I want to tell you his story 👇
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ProPublica
7 months ago
NEW: Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a way that could result in cartel-like behavior. By
@heathervogell.bsky.social
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America’s Largest Landlord to Stop Using RealPage Rent-Setting Software, Makes Deal With DOJ
Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a...
https://www.propublica.org/article/greystar-realpage-doj-settlement-landlords-apartments-software?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=8-12
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Frustrated North Dakota mineral owners asked their lawmakers for help with a decade-old issue: Companies taking their royalty income. Lawmakers gave them a program that hasn’t helped. The latest
@propublica.org
and
@northdakotamonitor.com
story on the issue:
www.propublica.org/article/nort...
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They Can’t Get Answers From the Oil Industry. North Dakota’s Oversight Program Hasn’t Helped.
Frustrated by oil companies mysteriously withholding large amounts of royalties, North Dakota mineral owners lobbied for change. Instead, lawmakers provided an oversight program that, owners say, fail...
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-oil-gas-oversight-mineral-rights
7 months ago
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ProPublica
7 months ago
NEW: Frustrated by oil companies mysteriously withholding large amounts of royalties, North Dakota mineral owners lobbied for change. Instead, lawmakers provided an oversight program that, owners say, fails to address the issue it was created to solve. With
@northdakotamonitor.com
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They Can’t Get Answers From the Oil Industry. North Dakota’s Oversight Program Hasn’t Helped.
Frustrated by oil companies mysteriously withholding large amounts of royalties, North Dakota mineral owners lobbied for change. Instead, lawmakers provided an oversight program that, owners say, fail...
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-oil-gas-oversight-mineral-rights?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=8-11
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“It’s a matter of fairness.” In North Dakota, mineral owners feel “cheated” by oil companies. Check out this thoroughly-reported story and stunning visuals in a
@propublica.org
and
@northdakotamonitor.com
collaboration
www.propublica.org/article/nort...
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“You Feel Like You’re Being Cheated”: Oil Companies Unfairly Take Millions, North Dakota Mineral Owners Say
Oil companies are holding back a large portion of revenue payments to the people they lease drilling rights from, often with little explanation. But the industry has an outsize influence in the state,...
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-mineral-owner-royalty-deductions
7 months ago
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ProPublica
7 months ago
NEW: Oil companies are holding back a large portion of revenue payments to the people they lease drilling rights from, often with little explanation. But the industry has an outsize influence in the state, and public officials have refused to take action. With
@northdakotamonitor.com
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“You Feel Like You’re Being Cheated”: Oil Companies Unfairly Take Millions, North Dakota Mineral Owners Say
Oil companies are holding back a large portion of revenue payments to the people they lease drilling rights from, often with little explanation. But the industry has an outsize influence in the…
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-mineral-owner-royalty-deductions?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=8-4
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North Dakota Monitor
7 months ago
ND mineral owners have sought the state’s help as the oil industry takes deductions from royalty payments. Public officials have refused to take action, which some attribute to the industry’s outsize influence on the state. With
@propublica.org
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North Dakota mineral owners say oil companies unfairly keep millions from checks without oversight • North Dakota Monitor
Oil companies are holding back a large portion of revenue payments to the people they lease drilling rights from, often with little explanation.
https://buff.ly/zOs8iTi
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The U.S. Supreme Court just gave the Trump administration the go-ahead to slash the Education Department. I have been reporting on eduction for decades. If you have been impacted by this news, please reach out to me on Signal at jodireporter.88
www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
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Help Us Report on How the Department of Education Is Handling Civil Rights Cases
Have you recently filed a civil rights complaint or do you have a pending case? We need your help to get a full picture of how the dismantling of the Office for Civil Rights is affecting students, par...
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/help-propublica-report-on-department-of-ed-ocr-civil-rights-cases
8 months ago
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Jennifer Smith Richards
8 months ago
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Education Dept. can carry out mass firings it began in March. So I'm here to remind you that we're continuing to report on changes at ED, including to its civil rights division. If you have been affected, we're listening:
www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
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Help Us Report on How the Department of Education Is Handling Civil Rights Cases
Have you recently filed a civil rights complaint or do you have a pending case? We need your help to get a full picture of how the dismantling of the Office for Civil Rights is affecting students, par...
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/help-propublica-report-on-department-of-ed-ocr-civil-rights-cases
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Thrilled that
@lastweektonight.com
featured our
@propublica.org
reporting on Grace as part of a segment on juvenile justice. You can read the entire series about Grace and Michigan’s failures here:
www.propublica.org/series/grace
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9 months ago
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ProPublica
9 months ago
@lastweektonight.com
also cited the July 2020 story by
@jodiscohen.bsky.social
on Grace, the Michigan teen who was sent to juvenile detention for failing to do her schoolwork:
www.propublica.org/article/a-te...
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9 months ago
NEW: North Dakota lawmakers wanted an ethics commission but then they made it essentially toothless. Very good story from Jacob Orledge and Mary Steurer of the
@northdakotamonitor.com
, with editing from
@propublica.org
's
@jodiscohen.bsky.social
.
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North Dakota Ethics Commission Has No Authority to Punish Officials Violating Ethics Laws, State Leaders Argue
Voters created an ethics watchdog agency seven years ago. But officials keep pushing to weaken it, even as North Dakotans are filing a record number of complaints.
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-ethics-commission-enforcement-authority
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Melissa Sanchez
9 months ago
1/ We got government data showing that the Trump administration knew the majority of Venezuelan men it sent to a prison in El Salvador had no criminal record in the U.S. - and that only a handful had been convicted of violent crimes - before calling them all terrorists and deporting them.
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Eileen Clancy đź§ż
9 months ago
It took 12 stories from 2022 to 2023. (And, a couple of follow-up stories too, right?) Now, there's a law that protects kids. Excellent work
@jodiscohen.bsky.social
and
@jsmithrichards.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Illinois lawmakers ban police from issuing tickets and fines to students at school. This comes 3 years after our @propublica/chicago tribune investigation into the practice. W/@jsmithrichards.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/illi...
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Illinois Lawmakers Ban Police From Ticketing and Fining Students for Minor Infractions in School
The legislation comes after a ProPublica-Chicago Tribune investigation revealed that even though state law bans schools from fining students directly, districts skirt the law by calling on police to i...
https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-bans-police-ticketing-students-school-price-kids-pay
9 months ago
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10 months ago
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Chris Morran
10 months ago
NEW: The school did not contact police about the teacher who dragged the young boy by his ankle until after the boy’s father complained. And yet... This school has regularly called the cops on students for years. By
@jsmithrichards.bsky.social
@jodiscohen.bsky.social
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A Teacher Dragged a 6-Year-Old With Autism by His Ankle. Federal Civil Rights Officials Might Not Do Anything.
The Garrison School is part of a special education district that had students arrested at the highest rate in the country. It had pledged to change how it disciplines kids after a ProPublica-Chicago T...
https://www.propublica.org/article/garrison-school-illinois-autistic-student-dragged-ankle?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=cm
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@jsmithrichards.bsky.social
@propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/garr...
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A Teacher Dragged a 6-Year-Old With Autism by His Ankle. Federal Civil Rights Officials Might Not Do Anything.
The Garrison School is part of a special education district that had students arrested at the highest rate in the country. It had pledged to change how it disciplines kids after a ProPublica-Chicago T...
https://www.propublica.org/article/garrison-school-illinois-autistic-student-dragged-ankle
10 months ago
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Anna Clark
10 months ago
NEW: The Great Lakes hold 95% of all the surface freshwater in the United States. Severe cuts have decimated the NOAA Great Lakes lab. Scientists worry they’ve lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people. My story for
@propublica.org
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Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and...
https://www.propublica.org/article/noaa-michigan-lab-toxic-algae-blooms-great-lakes-drinking-water
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ProPublica
10 months ago
The Education Department was deep into an investigation of a school district where students allegedly played whipping sounds from their phones during a lesson about slavery. Then in March, Trump fired all of the employees working on the case. By
@jsmithrichards.bsky.social
&
@jodiscohen.bsky.social
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A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Transgender Students
The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making discrimination investigations practically impossible — instead enforcing…
https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-donald-trump-discrimination?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=5-4
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@propublica.org
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A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Transgender Students
The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making discrimination investigations practically impossible — instead enforcing i...
https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-donald-trump-discrimination
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