
Becca Savransky
Education Reporter at Idaho Statesman
Education reporter @IdahoStatesman via @Report4America. Contact: [email protected]
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propublica.org | Jodi S. Cohen |Jennifer Smith Richards |Aliyya Swaby |Becca Savransky
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Illinois legislators on Wednesday passed a law to explicitly prevent police from ticketing and fining students for minor misbehavior at school, ending a practice that harmed students across the state. The new law would apply to all public schools, including charters.
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propublica.org | Aliyya Swaby |Jennifer Smith Richards |Jodi S. Cohen |Becca Savransky
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Schools must use threat assessments to determine if a threat of mass violence is “valid,” but they often carry them out inconsistently. Tennessee is supposed to track how effective schools’ threat assessments are, but the state does not release that information to the public.
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propublica.org | Jennifer Smith Richards |Jodi S. Cohen |Becca Savransky |Asia Fields
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. A short video taken inside an Illinois school captured troubling behavior: A teacher gripping a 6-year-old boy with autism by the ankle and dragging him down the hallway on his back.
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autism.einnews.com | Jennifer Smith Richards |Jodi S. Cohen |Becca Savransky |Asia Fields
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. A short video taken inside an Illinois school captured troubling behavior: A teacher gripping a 6-year-old boy with autism by the ankle and dragging him down the hallway on his back.
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propublica.org | Jake Pearson |Lomi Kriel |Mica Rosenberg |Becca Savransky
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. One of Elon Musk’s employees is earning between $100,001 and $1 million annually as a political adviser to his billionaire boss while simultaneously helping to dismantle the federal agency that regulates two of Musk’s biggest companies, according to court records and a financial disclosure report obtained by ProPublica.
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