“What’s happening is funding is shifting from high, high poverty districts to really middle-income districts,” Kevin Stockdale, the CFO at Cleveland Metropolitan School District, said discussing updated financial forecast. https://t.co/b9Wyhh47sB #CMSD #ClevelandSchools

Cleveland school district has thousands of empty seats and it says it needs to cut back even if a levy passes. Should it close schools? A deep dive from me today:

Take a minute to check out @signalcleveland's visual story telling through this photo essay by @mikeyindr 'It's a family to me': Cleveland's young immigrants build community through sports (photos) https://t.co/iHiT96T4zt via @signalcleveland

Cleveland's school levy campaign is coming together with the launch of its website this week. Details from @mikeyindr:

One more way @signalcleveland is filling in gaps in local media coverage of Cleveland schools. Hope you take 3 minutes and check latest from K-12 video reporter @mikeyindr https://t.co/ETWFpmwO80 via @YouTube

At the last @CLEMetroSchools board meeting of this school year, a school board member said goodbye after stepping down and funding for music programming and safety improvements were approved. K-12 Education Reporter @mikeyindr has the details ⤵ https://t.co/Q5DsDXZA38.

I'm back in Cle covering K-12 Education for @signalcleveland :)

Check my story out 🔥🔥 thanks to @FlintBeat and my boy @mikeyindr for the beautiful story. My Next fight will be at motor city casino in Detroit Michigan https://t.co/mDpmwXnFQz

And thank to @FlintBeat & @Report4America for supporting us!

I’m not crying, you’re crying - huge thanks to @terrycrews for sharing this short documentary. Trustin’s family and I spent a year together making this happen. Recognition like this is humbling🙏🏼

Go inside @flint_united's recent tryout run at @IAFphoenix with a final tryout scheduled for Sunday, January 21 at @UMFlint, as the team prepares for their third season in the @TBLproleague... 📸 @mikeyindr @FlintBeat https://t.co/pQfJ8PQbwI #atbl #tbl

Here's a thread with highlights from Saturday's protest organized by @pslneohio, followed by some of my thoughts. Dee McCall with @thefreedomBLOC opening: "Everything right now that's happening, it seems like we're reading this book in 1965..."

Steven Crowder getting punched by a dripped out IBEW member at a rally against right to work in Michigan.

@FlintBeat welcomes corps member @MikeyIndr to its newsroom: “I’ve lived my whole life in the Rust Belt, but I’m seeing already in my first couple days here in Flint that no amount of online research could do this city justice.” “The Midwest is my home.” https://t.co/IpOnG91wAO

It is with those insights in my brain and a fire burning in my soul that I’m jumping into the Flint community. I’m going to miss Cleveland dearly, but in the words of Kid Cudi: “The people I’ve met and the places I’ve been all will make me the man I so proudly am.”

I carry with me all the lessons you’ve taught me, the insights you’ve shared with me, the new perspectives you’ve helped me see.

To friends and family who’ve passed, too.

Y’all who have supported my work - I can’t thank you enough. Same goes to those who’ve so courageously trusted me with their stories, who have shared with me moments of vulnerability, immeasurable strength and raw humanity.

This is the first time in my young career that I’ll reach for the camera before the pen, that I’ll be able to focus on visuals over writing. The thought of that reality has driven me for the last 5 or so years, and now that it’s here, it’s surreal.