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              K12 reporter @hechingerreport she/her [email protected] past: @greenvillenews
              
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           WaPo: Pentagon says it will require reporters "to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey."  https://t.co/mTNk4GH2kh 
          
          
            
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              Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.
            
                
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             In Ashe County, NC, those federal dollars pay for the community's only afterschool program, training for teachers, salaries for some positions. There's no way they could make it up locally if it's gone next year. 
          
                
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             Across the country, schools are preparing to lose federal dollars after the Dept. of Ed. abruptly froze, then unfroze, billions this summer. They are trying to calculate what it will mean for students and teachers if that money goes away permanently: 
          
            
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              Ashe County, North Carolina, and thousands of other school districts are preparing to lose some federal public school funding after a freeze on nearly $7 billion over the summer.
            
                
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             In the hours leading up to the decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel, two sources familiar with the matter say, senior executives at ABC, its owner Disney, and affiliates convened emergency meetings to figure out how to minimize the damage. Multiple execs felt that Kimmel had not 
           “Jimmy Kimmel Live will be pre-empted indefinitely,” an ABC spokesperson told Rolling Stone on Wednesday. The spokesperson did not clarify the reason behind the decision. Details:  https://t.co/XKOSXcfKgo 
            
            
                
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             The power of local journalism: For two years, the solicitor’s office sat on evidence that Michael Pearson was likely innocent of a crime they imprisoned him for 15 years ago. After @ConorJHughes wrote about it, he left the courthouse a free man today.  https://t.co/pgPGD934Pr 
          
          
                
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             Breaking News: After over 150 years, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will stop publishing a print newspaper at the end of the year. 
          
            
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              The publication says the time is right to pour all of its resources into its online news operation and get its journalism “in front of the most people.”
            
                
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             BREAKING: Two children were killed and 17 people injured in a shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school, police said. The shooter is also dead. 
          
            
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              Authorities say a shooter opened fire with a rifle through the windows of a Minneapolis Catholic church and struck children celebrating Mass during the first week of school.
            
                
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             University of South Carolina's Police Dpt. says it believes Sunday's false active shooter alert was part of a swatting hoax. USC says PD dispatch received 2 calls 6:30/6:32PM. Said both calls came from an unknown male "and included background noise that mimicked gunfire." 
          
                
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             🍂 Fall preview! A strong cold front will bring an unseasonably cool air mass to much of the Lower 48 through the weekend & into next week. Forecast high temperatures are expected to be roughly 10 to 30 degrees below average for this time of year. 
          
                
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             Per South Carolina AVP for Univ. Communication Jeff Stensland: - Received unconfirmed report of active shooter at Thomas Cooper Library - Law enforcement clearing building floor-by-floor - No injuries - No confirmation there was a shooter at the library 
          
                
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             Urgent Carolina Alert: Active Shooter at Thomas Cooper Library on Columbia campus. Subject reported as 6ft white male with black pants.  https://t.co/veWauKEwzq. 
          
          
                
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             As questions arise about an SC man's innocence, his prosecutor comes under fire  https://t.co/Ui6uMXCo5z  via @postandcourier
          
          
            
            postandcourier.com
              Michael Pearson has been in an SC prison for the past 15 years and maintained innocence. The solicitor who put him there now faces ethical questions.
            
                
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             The CHOOSE Act is now live in Alabama. We mapped every participating private school so you can see where they’re clustered — and where there are fewer choices. 23,429 ESAs awarded so far, worth nearly $128M. Map + details on @ALDailyNews:  https://t.co/M0eyqnDSsR 
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              A first look at the schools signed up for the program shows choices are plentiful in some areas but scarce in others.
            
                
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             Despite evidence of his innocence, Texas has set an execution date for Robert Roberson - Oct. 16. If this goes through Texas will be the first state to execute someone based on a shaken baby diagnosis 
          
                
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             Absenteeism rates at schools across the nation have come down a bit in recent years, but they're still stubbornly higher than they used to be before the pandemic. Some surprising things I have learned. (1/5) 
          
                
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             Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down  https://t.co/rz35KVK8Bw  via @NYTimes
          
          
            
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              The company is among the first casualties of a vote to strip roughly $500 million in federal funding from NPR, PBS and local stations across the country.
            
                
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             Funding cuts to AmeriCorps come at a time when entry level jobs are increasingly hard to find. One college grad affected by the cuts told me he joined AmeriCorps because every "entry level" job he applied to required some experience in the field.  https://t.co/dXuhosYYEo 
          
          
            
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              AmeriCorps, once a promising pathway to jobs for young adults, is under threat as the Trump administration calls for shuttering the agency.
            
                
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             “You start wishing your children were part of your body again, back inside the womb, or behind your ribs, or in your eyes, just so you can shield them from a world that wants to break them." 
          
            
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              “There’s not enough food for me, so how can I have enough milk for her?” one woman says.
            
                
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             WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department will release some previously withheld grant money for after-school programs, days after 10 Republican senators sent a letter imploring the Office of Management and Budget to allow the funds to be sent to states. @anniema15
          
          
                
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