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Inside Our Schools

328 stories published since 2015

Liberty University’s Handling of Sexual Assaults Under Investigation by Department of Education

by Hannah Dreyfus

April 29, 2022, 6:00 am EDT
The Price Kids Pay: Schools and Police Punish Students With Costly Tickets for Minor Misbehavior

by Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, and Jennifer Smith Richards, photography by Armando L. Sanchez, Chicago Tribune, illustrations by Laila Milevski, ProPublica

April 28, 2022, 5:00 am EDT
Do Police Give Students Tickets in Your Illinois School District?

by Ruth Talbot, ProPublica, Jennifer Smith Richards, and Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica

April 28, 2022, 4:59 am EDT
“We’re Going to Be Conservative.” Official Orders Books Removed From Schools, Targeting Titles About Transgender People.

by Jeremy Schwartz, and Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News

March 23, 2022, 1:30 pm EDT
A Push to Remove LGBTQ Books in One County Could Signal Rising Partisanship on School Boards

by Jeremy Schwartz

February 7, 2022, 6:00 am EST
Baker College Threatens Legal Action Against Former Teacher Who Talked to Reporters

by Anna Clark, ProPublica, and David Jesse, Detroit Free Press

January 28, 2022, 11:00 am EST
Toxic PCBs Festered at This Public School for Eight Years as Students and Teachers Grew Sicker

by Lulu Ramadan, The Seattle Times

January 23, 2022, 9:00 am EST
The Nonprofit College That Spends More on Marketing Than Financial Aid

by Anna Clark, ProPublica, and David Jesse, Detroit Free Press

January 12, 2022, 5:00 am EST
The Federal Government Gave Billions to America’s Schools for COVID-19 Relief. Where Did the Money Go?

by Annie Waldman and Bianca Fortis

October 20, 2021, 12:30 pm EDT
Few Masks. Sick Kids. Packed ERs. How One District’s First Four Weeks of School Went Bad.

by Nicole Carr

October 5, 2021, 10:30 am EDT
A Boy With an Autoimmune Disease Was Ready to Learn in Person. Then His State Banned Mask Mandates.

by Annie Waldman and Bianca Fortis

August 25, 2021, 2:00 pm EDT
My Kids’ School Won’t Reinstate Masks Despite a Recent Surge in COVID Cases. Here’s What I Chose to Do.

by Nicole Carr

August 12, 2021, 6:00 am EDT
Held Back: Inside a Lost School Year

by Annie Waldman, ProPublica, photography by Cydni Elledge

June 28, 2021, 5:00 am EDT
“I Finally Got to the Mountaintop and I Failed”

by Bob Fernandez, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Charlotte Keith, Spotlight PA

June 10, 2021, 5:00 am EDT
The Bureau of Indian Education Hasn’t Told the Public How Its Schools Are Performing. So We Did It Instead.

by Alden Woods, The Arizona Republic, and Agnel Philip, ProPublica

June 9, 2021, 5:00 am EDT
How We Analyzed the Performance of Bureau of Indian Education Schools

by Agnel Philip, ProPublica, and Alden Woods, The Arizona Republic

June 9, 2021, 4:49 am EDT
Illinois Dramatically Limits Use of Seclusion and Face-Down Restraints in Schools

by Jennifer Smith Richards, and Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica

May 30, 2021, 2:03 pm EDT
America’s Richest School Serves Low-Income Kids. But Much of Its Hershey-Funded Fortune Isn’t Being Spent.

by Bob Fernandez, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Charlotte Keith, Spotlight PA

May 28, 2021, 5:00 am EDT
Illinois Continued to Seclude and Restrain Students This Year Even Though Many Schools Were Closed

by Jennifer Smith Richards, and Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica

May 27, 2021, 7:10 pm EDT
Hershey Profits Fund $17 Billion Endowment for Nonprofit School, but Board Member Says It Won’t Let Him See Financial Records

by Bob Fernandez, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Charlotte Keith, Spotlight PA

April 16, 2021, 5:00 am EDT
New York City Kills COVID Rule That Led to Repeated School Closings Despite No Evidence of Outbreaks

by Eric Umansky

April 8, 2021, 5:00 pm EDT
My Kids’ School Closed Again. So I Started Calling Experts.

by Eric Umansky

April 2, 2021, 5:00 am EDT
The Lost Year: What the Pandemic Cost Teenagers

by Alec MacGillis, photography by Celeste Sloman

March 8, 2021, 12:58 pm EST
Bill Banning Locked Seclusion and Face-Down Restraints in Illinois Schools Stalls as Lawmakers Run Out of Time

by Jennifer Smith Richards, and Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica

January 13, 2021, 7:30 pm EST
Only Seven of Stanford’s First 5,000 Vaccines Were Designated for Medical Residents

by Caroline Chen

December 18, 2020, 4:23 pm EST
The Pandemic Hasn’t Stopped This School District From Suing Parents Over Unpaid Textbook Fees

by Ellis Simani, ProPublica, and Kim Kilbride, South Bend Tribune

December 12, 2020, 5:00 am EST
Two School Districts Had Different Mask Policies. Only One Had a Teacher on a Ventilator.

by Annie Waldman and Heather Vogell

November 23, 2020, 11:48 am EST
Did You Attend the Milton Hershey School? We’re Investigating It. Help Us.

by Bob Fernandez, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Charlotte Keith, Spotlight PA, Beena Raghavendran and Zipporah Osei, ProPublica

November 23, 2020, 5:00 am EST
Illinois Will Start Sharing Data About COVID-19 Outbreaks in Schools

by Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, and Jennifer Smith Richards

October 21, 2020, 7:45 pm EDT
Illinois Has Had COVID-19 Outbreaks in 44 Schools but Won’t Say Where They’ve Occurred

by Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, and Jennifer Smith Richards

October 8, 2020, 6:00 am EDT
The Federal Government Promised Native American Students Computers and Internet. Many Are Still Waiting.

by Alden Woods, Arizona Republic

September 28, 2020, 2:01 pm EDT
¿Son seguras las escuelas y las universidades en Estados Unidos? ¿Los alumnos realmente aprenden? Ayúdenos a saber más.

por Beena Raghavendran, Caroline Chen, Annie Waldman y Jodi S. Cohen

August 24, 2020, 10:28 am EDT
The Federal Government Gives Native Students an Inadequate Education, and Gets Away With It

by Alden Woods, Arizona Republic

August 6, 2020, 9:00 am EDT
Grace, Black Teen Jailed for Not Doing Her Online Coursework, Is Released

by Jodi S. Cohen

July 31, 2020, 6:42 pm EDT
Prosecutors Say They Support Releasing Girl Who Was Detained for Not Doing Her Schoolwork

by Jodi S. Cohen

July 30, 2020, 2:58 pm EDT
Judge Won’t Free Michigan Teenager Sent to Juvenile Detention After Not Doing Online Schoolwork

by Jodi S. Cohen

July 20, 2020, 8:26 pm EDT
Thousands Demand That Michigan #FreeGrace After the Teenager Was Incarcerated for Not Doing Her Schoolwork

by Jodi S. Cohen

July 15, 2020, 8:25 pm EDT
A Teenager Didn’t Do Her Online Schoolwork. So a Judge Sent Her to Juvenile Detention.

by Jodi S. Cohen

July 14, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
“I Can’t Breathe.” It Happens at Schools, Too.

by Jennifer Smith Richards, and Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica

July 10, 2020, 6:00 am EDT
Bill to Ban Seclusion and Face-Down Restraints in Illinois Schools Gets Sidelined After Pushback From Administrators

by Jennifer Smith Richards, and Jodi S. Cohen

May 29, 2020, 6:00 am EDT
Families of Special Needs Students Fear They’ll Lose School Services in Coronavirus Shutdown

by Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, and Jennifer Smith Richards

May 20, 2020, 3:24 pm EDT
This Rural School District Has Been Asking for Wi-Fi for Years. Now It’s Finally Getting It.

by Jodi S. Cohen, and Jennifer Smith Richards

April 28, 2020, 6:00 am EDT
How Often Do Schools Use Seclusion and Restraint? The Federal Government Isn’t Properly Tracking the Data, According to a New Report

by Jodi S. Cohen, and Jennifer Smith Richards

April 23, 2020, 4:45 pm EDT
Most Illinois School Districts Did Not Have Approved E-learning Plans Before the Pandemic

by Jodi S. Cohen, and Jennifer Smith Richards

April 20, 2020, 6:00 am EDT
How a School Stopped Relying on Restraining and Isolating Students — and What Others Can Learn From It

Jennifer Smith Richards, and Jodi S. Cohen

April 13, 2020, 6:00 am EDT
A School on Navajo Nation Stayed Open. Then People Started Showing Symptoms.

by Alden Woods, The Arizona Republic

April 7, 2020, 3:37 pm EDT
Lawmakers Vow to Push for a Statewide Ban on Face-Down Restraint of Children in Illinois Schools, Despite Reversal

by Jennifer Smith Richards, and Jodi S. Cohen

April 6, 2020, 8:22 pm EDT
Illinois Quietly Reversed Its Ban on a Dangerous Physical Restraint for Students

by Jodi S. Cohen, and Jennifer Smith Richards

April 6, 2020, 6:00 am EDT
When the State Shifted to E-learning, This Rural School Superintendent Shifted to the Copy Machine

by Jodi S. Cohen

March 27, 2020, 11:30 am EDT
Not All Schools Can #KeepLearning

by Jennifer Smith Richards, and Jodi S. Cohen and Haru Coryne

March 27, 2020, 11:30 am EDT