Just before a *jury trial* over a police ticket, the city said it would settle the matter. For $100, the ordeal would end.

Amara Harris refused, and won at trial. Yesterday she sued Naperville for $20 million, saying her civil rights were violated.

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“This is about one young woman’s courage to say, ‘The reason I am not going to pay the ticket is because I did nothing wrong.'”
The latest chapter in my brilliant colleagues, Jodi Cohen & Jennifer Smith Richards' series, The Price Kids Pay
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still can’t wrap my head around this, Marshall was a real one, a really, really real one

beautiful obit by ⁦Michael Grabell⁩

Marshall Allen, former ProPublica Health Care Reporter, Dies at 52 — propublica.org/article/marsha…

Emerging from the chaos at the Legislature last night, the passage of Hodan Hassan and Zaynab Mohamed's bill to reform contract-for-deed practices in MN. On its way to Governor Tim Walz! Find a link to the text in last week's story about Attorney General Keith Ellison's lawsuit: propublica.org/article/minnes…

'Knowing that this particular state, NY, doesn’t really have oversight of the facility, it kind of squashes my enthusiasm for the efforts I went through to make change.”

Illinois sends kids-- and spends millions -- to a facility that nobody is watching
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Sending students w/ extreme challenges out of state for help can be the only option.

But ... out of sight, out of mind?

And then what are the consequences?

More on this important issue from Jodi Cohen Jennifer Smith Richards

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All seven of these co-workers are outstanding journalists. To illustrate that point, just a week ago, on the same day, Darcel was named a Nieman fellow at Harvard and Christy Gutowski won the prestigious Anne Keegan Award from the Chicago Headline Club.

👀 A state law was meant to help Illinois families by allowing the use of public money to fund students’ tuition at special education boarding schools around the country. But in solving one problem, lawmakers created another. propublica.org/article/illino…

“One thing remains consistent across each section of the Chicago Tribune’s news operation — women and African American employees are underpaid by several thousands of dollars a year compared to their male and white counterparts,” the lawsuit states.

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How did Illinois school districts become the largest out-of-state feeder to a boarding school in Westchester County, NY?

Today, ProPublica published the second part of our investigation into oversight at Shrub Oak International School:

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Read this 🧵 on a boarding school for autistic youth that can cost nearly $600k/year but has zero state oversight 👇👇

Oh great, money that's supposed to be funding public schools is going into a private school for children with disabilities that operates without government oversight. And kids are coming out of there with signs of abuse.

NYC is among school districts paying millions of dollars for this Westchester school run by a family that has built an autism school empire using public money. Plenty of evidence of maltreatment in this story by ProPublica's Jennifer Smith Richards & Jodi Cohen. thecity.nyc/2024/05/08/shr…