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The Trump administration froze investigations into disability discrimination in education -- until the AP started asking questions.

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Eep...this NCES webpage about students with disabilities worked for me just yesterday, now it's broken due to a SQL error. Anyone else noticing these issues on government websites? nces.ed.gov/programs/coe...

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These sorts of examples are why we urgently need critical, ethical examinations of the implications for artificial intelligence, at all levels of power. Just because we can from the standpoint of the tech, doesn’t mean we should or must.

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"Previously...it took a team of up to 20 people a day or more to review and approve a single airstrike. Now, with AI systems, the military is approving hundreds a week."

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Great AP story about a Syrian Jewish family able to return to visit Damascus for the first time in 30 years -- and their old neighbors immediately recognized them.

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Illinois governor to back ‘screen-free schools’ and join national trend to ban cellphones in class apnews.com/article/cell...

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New York governor Hochul has rejected a request from Louisiana to extradite a doctor charged with prescribing abortion pills: "I will not be signing an extradition order that came from the governor of Louisiana. Not now, not ever."

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Guidance I received on Friday night RE: federal government websites being scrubbed... "Much (but not all) of the material archived as part of the most recent End of Term Archive effort is now available via the Wayback Machine" Here are some URLs you can use to get started.

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Statement from AP Executive Editor Julie Pace on a reporter being blocked from a White House event due to our editorial standards on place names: www.ap.org/the-definiti...

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The national outlook for education is grim, but there are still beacons of hope. Compton has used tutors and data to help its students climb a mountain, with math scores up over 1.5 grade levels compared to a decade ago. How will it keep up this success in the uncertain future ahead?

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Breaking from AP: "A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from placing 2,200 employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development on paid leave."

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LSU AgCenter hunger project ‘on hold’ amid USAID freeze lailluminator.com/2025/02/06/l... (from @piperhutch.bsky.social) #lalege #laed

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Department of Education plays a crucial role in making sure disabled kids receive the same access to education across states, and distributes funding for the needed accommodations.

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Trials halted included tests of malaria treatment in children under age 5 in Mozambique, tuberculosis treatment for kids in Peru, and HIV vaccines in South Africa. “I’ve never seen anything like it in my 40 years of doing international research. It’s unethical, it’s dangerous and it’s reckless.”

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Around 14% of public school budgets come from the federal government -- and it's especially critical to support low-income schools and kids with disabilities.

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"Able to hold 40,000 inmates, the CECOT is made up of eight sprawling pavilions. Its cells hold 65 to 70 prisoners each. They do not receive visits. There are no programs preparing them to return to society after their sentences, no workshops or educational programs. They are never allowed outside."

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"At least 74 non-management staff have been put on paid administrative leave...One common denominator that connects many of these department staff is a diversity and inclusion-focused workshop, known as Diversity Change Agents, that they attended at some point." www.npr.org/2025/02/03/n...

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Love this report card from Cade Brumley on Louisiana’s NAEP performance From 50th to 16th on 4th grade reading in 5 years is worth celebrating

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Timeline cleanse: Here is a nice story about owls.

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The face of me, a Louisiana reporter, when officials at the NAEP town hall kept on pointedly asking NPR's Cory Turner, "So you're going to the Gulf Coast to see why their reading scores are so high, right? That's your next reporting trip, right?"

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Despite $190 billion in federal spending for academic recovery, a worryingly high number of children in the U.S. still struggle to read -- a trend that began well before the pandemic.

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Pages that the Trump administration has taken down from the Department of Education website include “Resources for LGBTQI+ Students,” an overview of civil rights laws related racial discrimination, and “Avoiding the Discriminatory Use of Artificial Intelligence.”

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Louisiana is paying up to $16M to round homeless people from the street ahead of the Super Bowl and put them in a freezing warehouse with no indoor bathrooms -- instead of granting NOLA the $8M it asked for to help connect them to permanent housing. veritenews.org/2025/01/16/c...

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🚨🚨 HAIM is on the jazz fest lineup this is not a drill HAIM is on the jazz fest lineup 🚨🚨

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These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

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Surprising good news of the day: College Board finds that the average cost of attending an in-state public university, after grants and financial aid, is down 40% over the last decade -- from $4,140 to $2,480 per year. Tuition for private universities, however, continues to go up.

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Did anyone else hear FBs announcement that they were taking down fact-checking and think, "What fact-checking?" My FB feed is now 99% posts from random groups I don't follow about vigilantly inoffensive topics like bird watching. Nothing gets promoted that would be worth fact-checking.

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Why so many New Orleanians wince when they hear the word "resilient": "“It’s not fair to be judged by your ability to navigate trauma."

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This is a devastating read that will stay with me for a long time. It's not just about one writer, it's about how and why so many different adults were complicit in this abuse for decades. It's about how cycles of abuse and secrecy perpetuate themselves for generations.

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Went to a blood drive in New Orleans today held to support victims of the New Year's attack -- the CEO of The Blood Center said it was the biggest turnout had had seen since 9/11. Around 60 people in line when I was there at 11:30.

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I went to a Publix this weekend which had a large sign that said no animals are allowed except for two types of service animals: dogs and miniature horses. To recap: Cat in a Publix? Absolutely not. A regular horse? A pony? Get that shit out of here. Li'l Sebastian...step right in.

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A front page for the ages.

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