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Journalist @dailymemphian // education @chalkbeattn @memphisnews 🤓// once @nolanews ✨// stories mine, Rita’s 🐶 // 🔎 tips [email protected]

Memphis, TN
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RT @DailyMemphian: Ghanaian students have been told to vacate university housing unless debts are paid, in what one student calls a “betray….
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RT @DailyMemphian: The Lakeland school district will add its first-ever senior class this year.
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Tennessee didn't join the suit over ESSER, either. But because of the way federal officials responded to court rulings in favor of states who did sue, Tennessee students stand to benefit from that money returning to their districts.
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Tennessee is not among the states that sued over frozen federal Title funds. EdWeek put total funding at stake for Tennessee at $118.9M. State ed. officials haven't commented on the frozen funds. MSCS says the district has $17M tied up in what's withheld.
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Education Week
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Two Dozen States Sue Trump Over $6.8 Billion School Funding Freeze
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got to rescue this cat from this St Francis of Assisi tree and realize a lifelong dream. putting on my resume “climbed a tree and coaxed a kitten to jump into a rescue bucket”
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"This is the part that will forever haunt me. If I or anyone else had been closer to them, we would have helped her. We would have grabbed one of the kids. But we didn’t know that we were about to be plunged into the water. We simply didn’t know.".
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also plz know that "everything's bigger in texas even the news wars" is frankly not gonna be it, respectfully. 🤠.
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Once again I am just wondering @ giant newspapers if you'd cover the protests to returning to work and taking elevator selfies in the tower on 8th ave if you might report when that company buys THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS.
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RT @DailyMemphian: Grok, a chatbot that can have conversations with people and generate computer code and images, is powered, in part, by a….
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Nearly 200 Ghanaian students came to Memphis for an education. But a $3.6M bill could force them to leave. "All this progress will just come to a halt, and it will affect us academically." // @DailyMemphian .
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More news: Richmond’s MSCS team includes mix of new and familiar faces.
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📊NEWS🤓. I made 6 charts for you to learn about TCAP results in Memphis and Shelby County, and see more about how the 10 (!!) public school districts here stack up against each other and the state .
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RT @ChalkbeatTN: A rule change treats the federally funded preschool program like a welfare program and bars undocumented children from enr….
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"His death from cancer at the age of 70 is being mourned by an untold number of people. But his life is being celebrated by those who can attest to his brilliance as a writer, his courage and tenacity as a reporter and his thoughtfulness as a human being.".
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The Daily Memphian
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One day in late May 1977, a young Black man took a seat at a desk for his first day as a reporter at The Commercial Appeal.
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Here’s DM’s coverage of this, by the way: .
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RT @ldtestino: 🎺TCAP scores 2025: See how MSCS students did on Tennessee tests . Featuring @DailyMemphian graphs and analysis of major key….
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RT @DamichaelC: Man, this put tears in my eyes. Dr. K saw so much in me when I was a young junior student just trying to get my feet wet. T….
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The ESSER and Title federal funding uncertainty is new from Trump administration. But the uncertainty brought by the Head Start award is not. Here's what national advocates told me about that last month: .
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MSCS has filled 2,700 Head Start preschool seats out of its currently funded 3,360 seats, district officials say. Interim Supt. Richmond says he may seek board support to keep similar number of prek seats in a new "balancing act" of fiscal responsibility and addressing needs.
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"I wish I had an answer about Head Start," Langston said. The district is working on contingency plans because the funds may not be determined by the start of school . The feds told me this a few weeks ago: .
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