<p>Education Department “Lifting the Pause” on Some Civil Rights Probes, but Not for Race or Gender Cases<br>—</p><p>A memo to the department’s Office for Civil Rights reveals that the agency will allow “only disability-based discrimination” cases to proceed. Thousands of outstanding complaints will continue to sit idle.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/department-education-civil-rights-investigations-disability-gender-race-discrimination?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/department-education-civil-rights-investigations-disability-gender-race-discrimination?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/dep</span><span class="invisible">artment-education-civil-rights-investigations-disability-gender-race-discrimination?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#Disability</a> <a href="/tags/race/" rel="tag">#Race</a> <a href="/tags/gender/" rel="tag">#Gender</a> <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#Discrimination</a></p>
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<p>The Trump Administration’s War on Children<br>—</p><p>The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/how-trump-budget-cuts-harm-kids-child-care-education-abuse?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/how-trump-budget-cuts-harm-kids-child-care-education-abuse?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/how</span><span class="invisible">-trump-budget-cuts-harm-kids-child-care-education-abuse?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/parents/" rel="tag">#Parents</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/abuse/" rel="tag">#Abuse</a></p>
<p>"During its first 100 days, as the Trump administration has dismantled the Education Department, one of its biggest targets has been the civil rights arm. Now, Education Secretary Linda McMahon is “reorienting” what’s left of it." <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#democracy</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a> <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-donald-trump-discrimination?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-mastodon&utm_content=ben" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-donald-trump-discrimination?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-mastodon&utm_content=ben"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/edu</span><span class="invisible">cation-department-civil-rights-donald-trump-discrimination?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-mastodon&utm_content=ben</span></a></p>
<p>Just weeks after creating a $50 million tax credit for private schools, Idaho has shut down a program that helped public school students pay for laptops, school supplies, tutoring and other expenses.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-vouchers-public-school-funding-cuts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/idaho-vouchers-public-school-funding-cuts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ida</span><span class="invisible">ho-vouchers-public-school-funding-cuts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/idaho/" rel="tag">#Idaho</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#Students</a> <a href="/tags/parents/" rel="tag">#Parents</a> <a href="/tags/teaching/" rel="tag">#Teaching</a></p>
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<p><a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a></p><p>From WTOP.com: Hank and John Green’s studio becomes a nonprofit as they aim to make ‘trustworthy content’ online </p><p><a href="https://wtop.com/business-finance/2026/02/hank-and-john-greens-studio-becomes-a-nonprofit-as-they-aim-to-make-trustworthy-content-online/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="wtop.com/business-finance/2026/02/hank-and-john-greens-studio-becomes-a-nonprofit-as-they-aim-to-make-trustworthy-content-online/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wtop.com/business-finance/2026</span><span class="invisible">/02/hank-and-john-greens-studio-becomes-a-nonprofit-as-they-aim-to-make-trustworthy-content-online/</span></a></p>
<p>Alaska Owns Dozens of Deteriorating Schools. Now It Wants Under-Resourced Districts to Take Them On.<br>---</p><p>Alaska’s rural school district superintendents are trying to “find the best, most optimal use of very lean resources.” Taking on the state’s unmaintained buildings, they say, will only increase their burden.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-education-rural-school-districts-ownership?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/alaska-education-rural-school-districts-ownership?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ala</span><span class="invisible">ska-education-rural-school-districts-ownership?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/alaska/" rel="tag">#Alaska</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/rural/" rel="tag">#Rural</a> <a href="/tags/native/" rel="tag">#Native</a> <a href="/tags/indigenous/" rel="tag">#Indigenous</a></p>
<p>"I am an administrator at New York University, responsible for helping faculty adapt to digital tools. Since the arrival of generative AI, I have spent much of the last two years talking with professors and students to try to understand what is going on in their classrooms. In those conversations, faculty have been variously vexed, curious, angry, or excited about AI, but as last year was winding down, for the first time one of the frequently expressed emotions was sadness. This came from faculty who were, by their account, adopting the strategies my colleagues and I have recommended: emphasizing the connection between effort and learning, responding to AI-generated work by offering a second chance rather than simply grading down, and so on. Those faculty were telling us our recommended strategies were not working as well as we’d hoped, and they were saying it with real distress.</p><p>Earlier this semester, an NYU professor told me how he had AI-proofed his assignments, only to have the students complain that the work was too hard. When he told them those were standard assignments, just worded so current AI would fail to answer them, they said he was interfering with their “learning styles.” A student asked for an extension, on the grounds that ChatGPT was down the day the assignment was due. Another said, about work on a problem set, “You’re asking me to go from point A to point B, why wouldn’t I use a car to get there?” And another, when asked about their largely AI-written work, replied, “Everyone is doing it.” Those are stories from a 15-minute conversation with a single professor.</p><p>We are also hearing a growing sense of sadness from our students about AI use. One of my colleagues reports students being “deeply conflicted” about AI use, originally adopting it as an aid to studying but persisting with a mix of justification and unease."</p><p><a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-ai-enhancing-education-or-replacing-it" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.chronicle.com/article/is-ai-enhancing-education-or-replacing-it"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.chronicle.com/article/is-a</span><span class="invisible">i-enhancing-education-or-replacing-it</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/universities/" rel="tag">#Universities</a> <a href="/tags/highered/" rel="tag">#HigherEd</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#Writing</a></p>
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<p>The Department of Education Forced Idaho to Stop Denying Disabled Students an Education. Then Trump Gutted Its Staff.<br>—</p><p>For years, the Education Department was the only agency that could ensure states would improve conditions for disabled children. Now, Trump’s cuts threaten to hamper its oversight.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-idaho-students-disabilities-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-idaho-students-disabilities-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/dep</span><span class="invisible">artment-of-education-idaho-students-disabilities-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/idaho/" rel="tag">#Idaho</a> <a href="/tags/parents/" rel="tag">#Parents</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a> <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#Disability</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
<p>"A senior at Northeastern University filed a formal complaint and demanded a tuition refund after discovering her professor was secretly using AI tools to generate notes."</p><p><a href="https://fortune.com/2025/05/15/chatgpt-openai-northeastern-college-student-tuition-fees-back-catching-professor/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="fortune.com/2025/05/15/chatgpt-openai-northeastern-college-student-tuition-fees-back-catching-professor/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fortune.com/2025/05/15/chatgpt</span><span class="invisible">-openai-northeastern-college-student-tuition-fees-back-catching-professor/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a></p>
<p>New Uvalde Records Reveal Details About School Safety Concerns and Shooter’s Behavioral Issues<br>—</p><p>The release is part of a settlement agreement in a lawsuit that news organizations brought against state and local governments. The fight continues to get the Texas Department of Public Safety to release its own records.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/uvalde-records-shooting-campus-safety-concerns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/uvalde-records-shooting-campus-safety-concerns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/uva</span><span class="invisible">lde-records-shooting-campus-safety-concerns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/uvalde/" rel="tag">#Uvalde</a> <a href="/tags/schoolshooting/" rel="tag">#SchoolShooting</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/safety/" rel="tag">#Safety</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#Students</a> <a href="/tags/lawsuit/" rel="tag">#Lawsuit</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/arizona/" rel="tag">#Arizona</a> Regulators Closed a Failing Charter <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a>. It Reopened as a Private Religious School Funded by Taxpayers.<br>—</p><p>Arizona’s acclaimed voucher program provides zero transparency into private schools’ history, <a href="/tags/academic/" rel="tag">#academic</a> performance or financial sustainability to help parents make informed school choices.</p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/parenting/" rel="tag">#Parenting</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#Students</a> <a href="/tags/teacher/" rel="tag">#Teacher</a> <a href="/tags/parents/" rel="tag">#Parents</a></p><p><a href="https://propub.li/41WKSu6" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/41WKSu6</a></p>
<p>The latest from cartoonist Ben Sargent, in our magazine.</p><p>Read more from the May / June 2025 issue: <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/issues/may-june-2025/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/issues/may-june-2025/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/issues/m</span><span class="invisible">ay-june-2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a> <a href="/tags/religion/" rel="tag">#religion</a> <a href="/tags/schools/" rel="tag">#schools</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/txlege/" rel="tag">#TXlege</a> <a href="/tags/comics/" rel="tag">#comics</a></p>
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<p>A Tennessee School Expelled a 12-Year-Old for a Social Post. Experts Say It Didn’t Properly Assess if He Made a Threat.<br>—</p><p>The way school officials handled his case also exposes glaring contradictions in two recent state laws that aim to criminalize school threats and require schools to expel students who make them — with minimal transparency or accountability.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threat-assessment-expulsion?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threat-assessment-expulsion?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ten</span><span class="invisible">nessee-school-threat-assessment-expulsion?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#Students</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/parents/" rel="tag">#Parents</a></p>
<p>A Teacher Dragged a 6-Year-Old With Autism by His Ankle. Federal Civil Rights Officials Might Not Do Anything.<br>—</p><p>The Garrison School is part of a special education district that had students arrested at the highest rate in the country. It had pledged to change how it disciplines kids after a ProPublica-Chicago Tribune investigation and subsequent federal probe.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/garrison-school-illinois-autistic-student-dragged-ankle?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/garrison-school-illinois-autistic-student-dragged-ankle?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/gar</span><span class="invisible">rison-school-illinois-autistic-student-dragged-ankle?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/illinois/" rel="tag">#Illinois</a> <a href="/tags/autism/" rel="tag">#Autism</a> <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#Disability</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#Students</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a></p>
<p>This has probably been making the rounds on Mastodon, but dropping here so I can pin: Free U.S. civics courses at Harvard. (Some do require tuition, but most are free for timely reasons.)</p><p><a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a> <a href="/tags/civics/" rel="tag">#civics</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#government</a> <a href="/tags/harvard/" rel="tag">#Harvard</a></p><p><a href="https://pll.harvard.edu/subject/government" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="pll.harvard.edu/subject/government"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pll.harvard.edu/subject/govern</span><span class="invisible">ment</span></a></p>
<p>A Chattanooga 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.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threats-law-lawsuit-settlement?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threats-law-lawsuit-settlement?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ten</span><span class="invisible">nessee-school-threats-law-lawsuit-settlement?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#Students</a> <a href="/tags/violence/" rel="tag">#Violence</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#Police</a></p>
<p>The U.S. Department of Education has fined Michigan’s Baker College $2.5 million for years of “substantial misrepresentation” of career outcomes, following a 2022 ProPublica-Detroit Free Press report detailing the college’s low graduation rates and the heavy debt that many students shoulder.</p><p><a href="https://propub.li/4h1gRgK" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/4h1gRgK</a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/college/" rel="tag">#College</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/debt/" rel="tag">#Debt</a></p>
<p>Illinois legislators just passed a law to explicitly prevent police from ticketing and fining students for minor misbehavior — such as littering, swearing or vaping — at school.</p><p>The legislation comes three years after a ProPublica-Chicago Tribune investigation into the practice.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-bans-police-ticketing-students-school-price-kids-pay?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/illinois-bans-police-ticketing-students-school-price-kids-pay?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ill</span><span class="invisible">inois-bans-police-ticketing-students-school-price-kids-pay?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/illinois/" rel="tag">#Illinois</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#Police</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#Students</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a></p>
<p>The Movement to Redirect Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to Private Religious Schools<br>—</p><p>Private letters reveal the strategy behind the decadeslong quest — successful in 12 states and counting — by politicians, church officials and activists to make taxpayer-funded school vouchers available not just to the poor but to the wealthy.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/school-vouchers-ohio-church-state-tax-dollars-private-religious?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/school-vouchers-ohio-church-state-tax-dollars-private-religious?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/sch</span><span class="invisible">ool-vouchers-ohio-church-state-tax-dollars-private-religious?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/ohio/" rel="tag">#Ohio</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/church/" rel="tag">#Church</a> <a href="/tags/religion/" rel="tag">#Religion</a></p>
<p>“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump<br>—</p><p>Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and sexual and racial harassment on hold.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-civil-rights-office-investigations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-civil-rights-office-investigations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/dep</span><span class="invisible">artment-of-education-civil-rights-office-investigations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/civilrights/" rel="tag">#CivilRights</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#Students</a> <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#Discrimination</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a></p>
<p>Two Families Sue After 11-Year-Old and 13-Year-Old Students Were Arrested Under Tennessee’s School Threat Law<br>—</p><p>The lawsuits, filed in federal court this month, argue East Tennessee school officials violated students’ rights by calling the police on them under Tennessee’s threats of mass violence law.</p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/lawsuit/" rel="tag">#Lawsuit</a></p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threats-law-lawsuits?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threats-law-lawsuits?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ten</span><span class="invisible">nessee-school-threats-law-lawsuits?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p>
<p>The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services reports that it misses a 90-day deadline to approve child care licensing applications about a third of the time. In regions with severe staffing shortages, that rate can rise above 50%.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/obstacles-to-opening-child-care-facilities-rural-illinois?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/obstacles-to-opening-child-care-facilities-rural-illinois?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/obs</span><span class="invisible">tacles-to-opening-child-care-facilities-rural-illinois?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/illinois/" rel="tag">#Illinois</a> <a href="/tags/rural/" rel="tag">#Rural</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#Family</a> <a href="/tags/parenting/" rel="tag">#Parenting</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a></p>
<p>ProPublica just launched a database to explore detailed demographic information about thousands of private schools across the country.</p><p>Here’s how to use it.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-private-school-demographics-lookup" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/propublica-private-school-demographics-lookup"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/pro</span><span class="invisible">publica-private-school-demographics-lookup</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a></p>
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