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A Teenager Didn’t Do Her Online Schoolwork. So a Judge Sent Her to Juvenile Detention. (ProPublica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 11/02/2020 - 13:50Top Federal Election Commission Official’s Undisclosed Ties to Trump Raise Concerns Over Agency Neutrality (ProPublica)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 10/28/2020 - 06:46The Students Left Behind by Remote Learning (ProPublica)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 09/28/2020 - 06:51The Trump Campaign’s Legal Strategy Includes Suing a Tiny TV Station in Northern Wisconsin
President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign filed defamation lawsuits against three of the country’s most prominent news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN. Then it filed another suit against a somewhat lower-profile news organization: northern Wisconsin’s WJFW-TV, which serves the 134th-largest market in the country.
What the Trump Campaign Is Up To on YouTube (ProPublica)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 06/24/2020 - 05:57ProPublica Seeks Public Broadcasting Partners for Its Local Reporting Network (ProPublica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 06/17/2020 - 12:19This Rural IL School District Has Been Asking for Wi-Fi for Years. Now It’s Finally Getting It.
Since the March shutdown of schools across Illinois, teachers at one rural southwestern district have been stuffing 800 manila envelopes with learning packets and mailing them to students’ homes because many families in the area don’t have computers or high-speed internet. Trico District 176’s remote learning challenges were highlighted recently in a story that exposed a digital divide across Illinois as schools shifted to remote learning because of the COVID-19 pandemic.