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Jennifer Smith Richards

@jsmithrichards.bsky.social

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Investigations in the Midwest at ProPublica. Past: Chicago Tribune by way of OH/GA/NY/WV. Enthusiastic about FOIA + data. Tell me everything.

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The Education Department is supposed to be monitoring this school and how it treats students. This is the video that captured a teacher dragging a student with autism last month after he did not stop playing with blocks to go to P.E.

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Spotted today at the US Department of Education as workers were required to come into the office: Long security lines, office furniture deliveries, colleagues greeting one another in uncertain times, faced with defending their jobs via email. (And one ProPublica reporter hanging around 🙋‍♀️ )

Education department workers wait in line to go through security screening.

The U.S. Department of Education building in Washington, D.C.

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This is my bedside stack right now and I’ve just started Wild Faith by @swordsjew.bsky.social, which is fascinating so far.

A stack of books: Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney, The King of Diamonds by Rena Pederson and Trippy by Ernesto Lodono. A Kindle sits atop the books.

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This is Doug and he is helping me look for education writers who are hanging around here. Help us out and suggest some ed writers to follow!

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