Jennifer Smith Richards
Investigative Reporter at ProPublica
Investigations in the Midwest at ProPublica. Past: Chicago Tribune by way of OH/GA/NY/WV. Enthusiastic about FOIA + data. Tell me everything.
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propublica.org | Mila Koumpilova |Jennifer Smith Richards |K. Rambo |Aliyya Swaby
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. To keep up with the latest education news, sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter. Dwindling enrollment has left about 150 Chicago schools half-empty, while 47 operate at less than one-third capacity, leading to high costs and limited course offerings.
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flipboard.com | Mila Koumpilova |Jennifer Smith Richards
Are We or Not in ‘Serfdom?’As F.A. Hayek, in his book published by the University of Chicago Press in 1944, “The Road to Serfdom,” this may be the end of truth.The question is …
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propublica.org | Aliyya Swaby |Matt Krupnick |Jennifer Smith Richards |Jodi S. Cohen
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. New laws in Georgia and New Mexico are requiring harsher punishments for students — or anyone else — who make threats against schools, despite growing evidence that a similar law is ensnaring students who posed no risk to others.
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3 weeks ago |
propublica.org | Matt Krupnick |Aliyya Swaby |Jennifer Smith Richards |Jodi S. Cohen
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Trump administration has proposed cutting funding for tribal colleges and universities by nearly 90%, a move that would likely shut down most or all of the institutions created to serve students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities.
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4 weeks ago |
propublica.org | Aliyya Swaby |Paige Pfleger |Jennifer Smith Richards |Jodi S. Cohen
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 Chattanooga, Tennessee, public charter school has agreed to pay the family of an 11-year-old boy $100,000 to settle a federal lawsuit claiming that it wrongfully reported the student to police for an alleged threat of mass violence.
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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
RT @GeorgeWPapajohn: "Embarrassing" "Tragedy" "Tipping point" "Waste of time and money" Disheartening quotes run thru this story by @He…
RT @charlesornstein: NEW: Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting…
