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Jan 18, 2025 | 
propublica.org | Sergio Hernandez |Mollie Simon |Sharon Lerner |Annie Flanagan
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. In South Carolina, where I live, rural towns often remain largely divided by race, especially those with larger Black communities. You’ll often hear people describe railroad tracks that run through these towns and how white people live on one side of the tracks, Black people on the other.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
propublica.org | Sergio Hernandez |Ken Schwencke |Alec MacGillis |Mollie Simon
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Join us Jan. 31 at 3 p.m. Eastern for a live demonstration of this database’s features. Private schools in the United States are, on the whole, whiter than public schools, with fewer Black, Hispanic or Latino students.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
propublica.org | Alec MacGillis |Aliyya Swaby |Paige Pfleger |Mollie Simon
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This story is exempt from our Creative Commons license until March 14. Rarely seen letters show how the voucher movement started in the 1990s as a concealed effort to finance urban parochial schools and expanded to a much broader push.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
propublica.org | Aliyya Swaby |Paige Pfleger |Eli Hager |Mollie Simon
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. Two families have sued an East Tennessee school district in federal court, arguing that school officials violated students’ rights when they called the police under a Tennessee law that seeks to severely punish threats of mass violence.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
propublica.org | Anna Clark |David Jesse |Eli Hager |Mollie Simon
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. The U.S. Department of Education has fined a Michigan college $2.5 million for years of “substantial misrepresentation” of career outcomes.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
sunherald.com | Mollie Simon
The scoreboard glowed with the promise of another Friday night football game in Liberty, a small town near the Louisiana border. The Trojans, in black and gold, sprinted onto the field to hollers from friends and families who filled barely half the bleachers. The fans were almost all Black, as is the student body at the county's lone public high school. Scanning the field and the stands would give you little indication that more than half the county's residents are white.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
propublica.org | Mollie Simon
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 new ProPublica analysis shows how much private schools segregate students by race. Across the South, many of these schools are segregation academies. In Amite County, Mississippi, the divide is especially stark.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
theemancipator.org | Mollie Simon
This story, the first in a two-part series, was first published in ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive their biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Update, Nov. 20, 2024: The North Carolina legislature has voted to override the governor’s veto of funding for 54,000 children on the school voucher waitlist. The move could more than double the number of students receiving private school vouchers and send more money to segregation academies.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
propublica.org | Jodi S. Cohen |Jennifer Smith Richards |Mollie Simon |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. In the strongest rebuke yet of Illinois school districts that ask police to ticket misbehaving students, the state attorney general has declared that the practice — still being used across the state — is illegal and should stop.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
gilmermirror.com | Mollie Simon
By Jennifer Berry Hawes and Mollie Simon ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. More in this series On May 14, the final day for submitting new bills in the Mississippi Legislature, a bold new package of them landed on the desks of Mississippi lawmakers. The plans called for the creation of a voucher program that paid for students to attend private schools.
