Annie Waldman
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Why America Fails Adults Who Struggle to Read
The nation’s approach to adult education has so far neglected to connect the millions of people struggling to read with the programs set up to help them. → Read More
Louisiana Lawmakers Could Limit Solitary Confinement for Teens Following Alarming Revelations
An investigation by ProPublica, NBC News and The Marshall Project found that youth in a Louisiana lockup were held in solitary around the clock for weeks. → Read More
Shackles and Solitary: Inside Louisiana’s Harshest Juvenile Lockup
Teens at Louisiana’s newest juvenile lockup, Acadiana Center for Youth at St. Martinville, were held in solitary confinement around the clock, shackled with leg irons and deprived of an education. “This is child abuse,” one expert said. → Read More
The Federal Government Gave Billions to America’s Schools for COVID-19 Relief. Where Did the Money Go?
The Education Department’s limited tracking of $190 billion in pandemic support funds sent to schools has left officials in the dark about how effective the aid has been in helping students. → Read More
Entergy Resisted Upgrading New Orleans’ Power Grid. When Ida Hit, Residents Paid the Price.
The power company failed to build a stronger system after hurricanes repeatedly pummeled Louisiana. Then Ida knocked out power for more than a week. “I don’t think it’s just Mother Nature,” said one resident. “This is neglect.” → Read More
A Boy With an Autoimmune Disease Was Ready to Learn in Person. Then His State Banned Mask Mandates.
High-risk students in states and districts that have made masks optional are staying home. → Read More
Two School Districts Had Different Mask Policies. Only One Had a Teacher on a Ventilator. —
Eleven states let school districts decide whether students and staff must wear masks. One Georgia middle school where masks were optional became the center of an outbreak. → Read More
New Orleans Hospitals Sent Coronavirus Patients Home to Die
In New Orleans, hospitals sent patients infected with the coronavirus into hospice facilities or back to their families to die at home, in some cases discontinuing treatment even as relatives begged them to keep trying → Read More
Sent Home to Die —
In New Orleans, hospitals sent patients infected with the coronavirus into hospice facilities or back to their families to die at home, in some cases discontinuing treatment even as relatives begged them to keep trying. → Read More
Are You Going to School During the Pandemic? Or Working There? —
ProPublica is covering school, college and university reopenings during COVID-19, and we need your help. Tell us about safety, academics, tuition and access to learning. → Read More
How New York City’s Emergency Ventilator Stockpile Ended Up on the Auction Block
A 2006 pandemic plan warned that New York City could be short as many as 9,500 ventilators. But the city only acquired a few hundred, which were ultimately scrapped because it couldn’t afford to ma… → Read More
The Trump Administration Drove Him Back to China, Where He Invented a Fast Coronavirus Test —
A federal crackdown on professors’ undisclosed outside activities is achieving what China has long struggled to do: spur Chinese scientists to return home. In this crisis, it’s costing the U.S. intellectual firepower. → Read More
Methodology: How ProPublica Mapped Hospital Capacity for Coronavirus —
Here’s how ProPublica analyzed how hospital capacity could vary region to region during the pandemic. → Read More
Are Hospitals Near Me Ready for Coronavirus? Here Are Nine Different Scenarios.
How soon regions run out of hospital beds depends on how fast the novel coronavirus spreads and how many open beds they had to begin with. Here's a look at the whole country. You can also search for your region. → Read More
Reporting Recipe: How to Investigate Professors’ Conflicts of Interest —
Here are four kinds of stories you can do using ProPublica’s interactive database, Dollars for Profs. → Read More
Medical Professors Are Supposed to Share Their Outside Income With the University of California. But Many Don’t. —
A comparison of University of California filings with federal data shows that moonlighting professors are shortchanging taxpayers. → Read More
How Teach for America Evolved Into an Arm of the Charter School Movement –
This story was originally published by ProPublica. When the Walton Family Foundation announced in 2013 that it was donating $20 million to Teach For America to recruit and train nearly 4,000 teachers for low-income schools, its press release did not reveal the unusual terms for the grant. Documents obtained by ProPublica show that the foundation, a […] → Read More
How Teach for America Evolved Into an Arm of the Charter School Movement —
Documents obtained by ProPublica show that the Walton foundation, a staunch supporter of school choice and Teach for America’s largest private funder, was paying $4,000 for every teacher placed in a traditional public school — and $6,000 for every one placed in a charter school. → Read More
Charlottesville’s Other Jim Crow Legacy: Separate and Unequal Education
The Virginia city has one of the widest achievement gaps in the U.S.—white students there are about four times as likely as black students to be considered gifted. → Read More
Charlottesville’s Other Jim Crow Legacy: Separate and Unequal Education
The Virginia city has one of the widest achievement gaps in the U.S., and a ProPublica/New York Times analysis shows that white students there are about four times as likely as black students to be considered gifted. → Read More