Tyler Kingkade
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National reporter @NBCNews, covering education // [email protected] // Signal: tylerkingkadenbc.20 // Bluesky: https://t.co/kqr8ZSphGY
Los Angeles
Joined January 2009
The ex-chiro filed for bankruptcy and "closed" the company But then I found something a few weeks ago -- He just started a new biz, again selling bodies, under a new name https://t.co/pNX3XVE0Gl Read the full @nbcnews investigation -- it's a wild ride!
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A disgraced chiropractor found a new job selling bodies. In an industry with few guardrails, he soon faced accusations of mishandling human remains.
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Here's how one photo the school district dropped on Facebook without thinking twice went viral and resulted in a deluge of death threats -->> https://t.co/BTe1uVzu7b
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A group of math teachers — some of whom were fans of Charlie Kirk — had their lives turned upside down this week over false accusations about a Halloween photo.
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I went to Arizona and spoke w/ one of the math teachers in this photo to learn the real story behind these shirts they wore on Halloween (that were falsely linked to Charlie Kirk's murder) Some in the pic didn't know who Kirk was, and others were fans of him and voted for Trump
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In 2024, a group of math teachers won a Halloween costume contest for wore bloody shirts that read "Problem Solved." In 2025, when the same teachers wore the same shirts, they received relentless death threats and attacks from GOP officials https://t.co/BTe1uVyWhD
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A group of math teachers — some of whom were fans of Charlie Kirk — had their lives turned upside down this week over false accusations about a Halloween photo.
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Here's my full @NBCNews story explaining how false accusations about their shirts went viral, leading to death threats and days of harassment -- requiring extra sheriff's deputies patrolling their school and homes https://t.co/BTe1uVzu7b
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A group of math teachers — some of whom were fans of Charlie Kirk — had their lives turned upside down this week over false accusations about a Halloween photo.
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Did you hear anything about the Arizona math teachers in the Vail School District that allegedly mocked Charlie Kirk's murder with shirts they wore on Halloween? Here is a letter those teachers received from the high school's student chapter of Turning Point USA >>>
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Not sure if I’ve seen anything like this before — Fox feel for an AI video and basically rewrote their whole story when called out https://t.co/L7bVMpb4Dw
Fox News ran an article about a woman who posted on TikTok about how she has 7 baby daddies and needs her SNAPs. Interesting news judgment. https://t.co/cauTPuzsOo
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.@tylerkingkade went to the hometown of country superstar Zach Bryan, to see what people make of his new song that appears to denounce ICE, and what they think of Trump's immigration agenda https://t.co/uIweht6aCY
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The country music megastar's lyric about immigration raids sparked controversy nationwide. In Oologah, Oklahoma, opinions are just as divided.
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"Today, we join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon’s new requirements, which would restrict journalists’ ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national security issues. The policy is without precedent and
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State lawmakers are stunned. Not just at the allegations against Stride, but that an online school grew to be larger than a majority of NM districts without them knowing about it
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Today and every day, Anduril honors our heroes. Veterans are core to our mission. They make up over 13% of our employee base. That’s more than twice the share in the US Labor Force. We asked our employees to nominate their Veteran teammates to recognize their impact. Here's
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Stride is suing the district, saying it violated open meetings laws and has refused to pay it for the last school year. The district says Stride is using the legal process to extract "retribution." There are 6 suits currently pending.
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Despite the controversy, many are sticking with Stride. Out of around 4,000 students, about 3,200 are still enrolled in Stride's school, after it signed contracts to operate open through different districts. The state auditor's office, however, is investigating the contracts
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But according to a whistleblower complaint filed with the New Mexico Public Education Department, that ethics complaint happened after a top Stride exec suggested to company leadership that they "attack first publicly" (The exec did not respond to req for comment)
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The district moved to cut off the contract in April. But before that was finalized, Stride's attorney filed an ethics complaint against the district's superintendent b/c he had tried to get a job with Stride last winter (he says it was before he knew about problems)
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Stride also says that many students who come to them are already behind in school, and they help them catch up in credits So under this framework, as the school grew, averages may have declined but individual students improved https://t.co/JkZMd04jHj
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And the district says that math, science and reading proficiency rates dropped -- in some cases, plummeted -- and graduation rates declined among online students. Stride says the district's data is inaccurate, and notes sky high parent satisfaction rates
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According to the district, Stride also failed to do proper special ed screenings, and packed students into classes that violated state law on student-teacher ratios. Some teachers hired also did not have proper background checks and credentials, the district says
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But late last year, after the district hired a data analyst, it started uncovering problems with Stride. The district says that Stride reported inflated numbers of students enrolled, thereby getting more funding based on enrollment. Stride disputes this.
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The district, in Gallup, NM, is a mostly Native American one. 100% of students qualify for free lunch. In the pandemic, it couldn't switch to online b/c many students didn't have internet at home. So it hired Stride, formerly known as K12 Inc, to help them out
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NEW: A rural school district in New Mexico hired the largest for-profit operator of virtual charter schools to set up its online school Fast forward five years later, and the district is suing the company for fraud and defamation Here's why... https://t.co/uNYuHtPSrR
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What began as an emergency option for New Mexico students during the pandemic has spiraled into dueling lawsuits and drawn government scrutiny.
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