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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2 weeks ago |
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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1 month ago |
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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1 month ago |
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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RT @NCYLnews: The House passed #ILSB1519 (69–44)! 🎉 A big win for #DebtFreeJustice — the School Ticketing Ban bill has now cleared both cha…
RT @PetrellaReports: The result of work by @propublica and former @chicagotribune reporters @Jodiscohen and @jsmithrichards
RT @katchicago: This is some big-time impact from the Chicago Tribune's investigation with @propublica into schools that use police to tick…