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…

NEW (AND SHOCKING): It costs close to $600,000 for students with autism to attend Shrub Oak International School. Yet no government agency performs oversight. Brilliant reporting from Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi Cohen of ProPublica.

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A year at Shrub Oak International School can cost $573,200 -- usually paid for by taxpayers.

Yet this private, for-profit school in NY operates w/o state oversight. Young people from 13 states are currently there.

Our new investigation out today: propublica.org/article/shrub-…

This is shocking. No state agency has authority over one of the country's most expensive therapeutic boarding schools. As a result, parents & staff have nowhere to report bruised students and medication mix-ups. ⁦Jennifer Smith Richards⁩ ⁦Jodi Cohen⁩ propublica.org/article/shrub-…

Must read! This School for Autistic Youth Can Cost $573,200 a Year. It Operates With Little Oversight, and Students Have Suffered.
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MAP: NYC Public Schools student enrollment is on the decline in all five boroughs—with numbers falling most acutely in Black communities.

Between 2012 and 2022, overall student enrollment declined by 12%, but Black student enrollment declined by 32.5%.

Yesterday, nearly 20 Columbia Journalism School community members were awarded the highest recognition in journalism. Congratulations to the finalists and winners of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes: journalism.columbia.edu/news/pulitzer-…

Polls show that immigration is the number one concern among most Americans. Join ProPublica, Texas Tribune and a panel of important experts to discuss why -- and what's ahead.

1/ Endo, the company that made Opana (oxymorphone), was just ordered to Pay $1.5 billion in criminal fines and forfeiture. The company also pled guilty to falsely promoting Opana ER as abuse deterrent. But that was the least of their bad actions.

Moments after ProPublica received the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for Supreme Court coverage.

Congratulations Justin Elliott, Josh Kaplan, Alex Mierjeski, Brett Murphy, Kirsten Berg and the many teams (editors, researchers, visuals) involved! 🔍🏆 The Pulitzer Prizes

What does a fire at a detention center in Mexico tell us about the US immigration system?

Join ProPublica & Texas Tribune to discuss how landmark policy shifts under Biden and Trump precipitated the fire and the ways immigration is shaping the election.
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New in The Atlantic: The first excerpt from my book “They Came for the Schools,” about the Christian right’s war on “secular humanism” four decades ago, which previewed, on a smaller scale, the campaigns to control what children learn today. theatlantic.com/family/archive…

According to the report, average Medicare Part B and D premiums and cost sharing equal 26% of the average Social Security benefit in 2024.

This is a big hit for people who have no other source of retirement income, unless they qualify for Medicare premium assistance.

NEW: The syphilis rate among Indigenous people in the Great Plains is higher than at any point in 80 years of records. More than 3% of Native American babies born in South Dakota last year had the preventable and curable — but potentially fatal — disease.
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When an oil well contaminated an Oklahoma farm, one family learned how easy it is for oil companies to leave their mess to landowners.

“It’s your own property, but you’re made to feel like they’re doing you a favor if they clean up their pollution.”
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Congratulations to STAT reporters Casey Ross and Bob Herman on being named 2024 #PulitzerPrize Finalists in Investigative Reporting for exposing how UnitedHealth Group used an unregulated algorithm to deny patient care. Read the lead investigation here: trib.al/HC5S1TI

'Friends of the Court,' ProPublica's investigation into Supreme Court justices' beneficial relationships with billionaire donors, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service!

Here are the highlights from the reporting 🧵👇

Honored our @texastribune ProPublica FRONTLINE team was named a The Pulitzer Prizes runner-up for our Uvalde investigations. texastribune.org/2024/05/06/tex…

🎉🎉🎉 ProPublica Wins Pulitzer Prize for Supreme Court Coverage propublica.org/article/pulitz…

Amazing work!! The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service!