Kate Martin
@katereports.bsky.social
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Correspondent at APM Reports with Sold a Story. Alum: NBC News, Carolina Public Press, The News Tribune, Skagit Valley Herald. FOIA and transparency enthusiast, data digger. notiFOIA founder. Pulling back the curtain on ██████████. [email protected]
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Looking for tips as one of your organization's few data reporters? Are you a lonely coder? Check out our AccessFest panel in 30 minutes where you will learn tips and tricks, for beginners to experienced reporters @ire.org
A slide showing the presenters of this AccessFest panel called Data reporting for smaller newsrooms. This features Cody Lillich, Kate Martin, Justin Myers and Kelly Waldron. AccessFest is an online conference sponsored by Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE)
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Have you done Where the Red Fern Grows yet?
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I constantly get these texts. I've started to tell them the house burned down.
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I had no idea Limewire had that much money
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They was a whole South Park about this. It wasn't flattering.
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After firing 90% of IES staff, the @usedgov.bsky.social has reopened the same roles.

Source: "There are a lot of upset former staff talking about it. ... Those look like the same jobs" they were fired from.
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Acting Director and Acting Commissioner, National Center for Education Statistics at the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education SciencesActing Director and Acting Commissioner, National Center for Education Statistics at the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences
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I’m proud to share two National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) job openings to join the hashtag#NAEP program:

+ Assessment Development Expert
+ Assessment Administration Expert 

These roles will provide technical direction and oversee the assessment content development and administration work for The Nation’s Report Card, two critical aspects that have helped NAEP earn its gold standard reputation.

Want to help all of us understand how U.S. students are doing in math, reading, U.S. history, civics, and science? Apply and please share w
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My mom used to take my sister and I crawdad fishing. It's definitely a core memory
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I've ordered takeout from Med Deli and picked it up from their temp location on Franklin Street many times. It appears takeout is paused due to the imminent reopening of it's prime location though.
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"For 50 years, we’ve been mapping a timeline of progress of our high school system, and we’re going to have a big blank," @agamoran.bsky.so<a href="https://www.apmreports.org/story/2025/08/21/trump-cancels-survey-of-high-schoolers" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cial recently told @apmreports.org
https://www.apmreports.org/story/2025/08/21/trump-cancels-survey-of-high-schoolers
A window into America’s high schools slams shut
For decades, the federal government has surveyed high school students — and repeatedly followed up with them as adults. The goal was to gather data on their educational choices and careers so research...
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NAEP is one of the few education initiatives Trump has vowed to preserve. But the administration has slashed staff responsible for keeping tests up to date. And the board overseeing the assessment has eliminated more than a dozen tests, citing “cost efficiencies.”

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‘At what point does it break?’ Nation’s Report Card at risk, researchers say
The National Assessment of Educational Progress is one of the few federal education initiatives that the Trump Administration has vowed to preserve. But the administration has slashed the staff respon...
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Hooray for breakfast pizza!
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That entire album is amazing
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I had an editor who kept a bottle of wild turkey at his desk in the mid 2000s, so yeah.
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That might be a verbatim quote from when I found the chocolate
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I didn't realize it was there until I got back to the newsroom and gave it to an editor to dispose of
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I've never been offered money (that I know of, I can be pretty dense sometimes) but one time a woman had her landscaper leave an unreasonable amount of luxury dark chocolate in the back seat of my old Ford Taurus
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Multiple complaints from faculty, administration, staff and students. Why was nothing done again?

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A quote from a news story about Brian Kohberger, convicted killer: “He is smart enough that in four years we will have to give him a Ph.D.,” the woman told her colleagues, according to the report from Idaho State Police Detective Ryan O’Harra. She continued, “Mark my word, I work with predators, if we give him a Ph.D., that’s the guy that in in that many years when he is a professor, we will hear is harassing, stalking, and sexually abusing ... his students at wherever university.”
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Wow. This is fantastic.
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And of course, now that you must put your destination in before requesting a ride, Uber drivers now know where you live.