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Apply: 2026 Investigative Editor Training Program
1+ hour, 26+ min ago (382+ words) Send an email to Assistant Managing Editor Talia Buford at [email protected]. For the fourth year, ProPublica will invite up to 10 news editors from media companies across the country to participate in a yearlong investigative editing training program, led by the…...
Two School Districts Sue, Claiming Alaska Is Failing Its Constitutional Obligation to Fund Public Education
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (744+ words) Two Alaska school districts filed a lawsuit on Jan. 20 in Anchorage Superior Court against the state, its governor and its education commissioner over what they say is a long-running failure to adequately fund public education. In the complaint, the Kuspuk…...
Vouchers, Patriotism and Prayer: The Trump Administration’s Plan to Remake Public Education
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (312+ words) Linda McMahon, the nation's secretary of education, says public schools are failing." In November, she promised a "hard reset" of the system in which more than 80% of U.S. children learn. But rather than invest in public education, she has been working…...
Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1756+ words) This story describes in detail incidents of racial and sexual harassment. In Colorado, students taunted their Black classmates by playing whipping sounds on their cellphones and saying they should be shot "to make us a better race." The only two…...
Alaska Owns Dozens of Deteriorating Schools. Now It Wants Under-Resourced Districts to Take Them On.
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (1215+ words) Co-published with Anchorage Daily News, KYUK, and NPR's Station Investigations Team In 2018, the department finally approved the school district's $18.6 million funding request to build a new elementary school wing onto Aniak's middle and high school building, which was owned by…...
Meet ProPublica’s 2025 Class of Emerging Reporters
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (316+ words) ProPublica's Emerging Reporters Program provides support and mentorships to college students who are pursuing careers in investigative journalism and need additional training and financial support to help advance their goals. The 2025-26 academic year's class of exceptional student journalists are from…...
This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (1762+ words) The future that the Trump administration envisions for public schools is more patriotic, more Christian and less "woke." Want to know how that might play out? Look to Oklahoma. Oklahoma has spent the past few years reshaping public schools to…...
Disabled Idaho Students Lack Access to Playgrounds and Lunchrooms. Historic $2 Billion Funding Will Do Little to Help.
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1722+ words) At an elementary school in southwest Boise, Idaho, in the fall of 2020, children in pre-K went to their recess on the playground, laughing and climbing ladders to reach the slide. One 3-year-old boy sat on the sidelines. The loose woodchips…...
Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (957+ words) Following public outcry, the U.S. Department of Education has restored funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, about a month after cutting it. But rather than sending the money directly to the four programs that are part of…...
Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (1128+ words) In just over eight months, the second Trump administration has made a rapid succession of political hires and policy decisions at the U.S. Department of Education that could spur profound changes in the way schools are operated and children learn. After…...