
Jodi S. Cohen
Reporter at ProPublica
Reporter @Propublica. Alum @chicagotribune @detroitnews @michigandaily. Mom x 3. The education beat is the best beat. [email protected]
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3 days 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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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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chicagotribune.com | Jodi S. Cohen |Jennifer Richards
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. It will require school districts, beginning in the 2027-28 school year, to report to the state how often they involve police in student matters each year and to separate the data by race, gender and disability.
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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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The landmark $2.8 billion NCAA settlement, expected to be finalized today, will change college sports. Here is our @propublica and @chicagotribune investigation about how one Big 10 university has struggled with disclosures of athletes’ NIL deals.

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