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Carrie Melago @carriemelago.bsky.social · 13d

Wow big NYC high school admissions change — in-person essays for Beacon instead of remote.
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The Beacon School

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 15d

I never identified with the label “soccer mom”—until I saw how much my sons’ sports teams meant to them, writes Carrie Melago.

How I Learned to Love Being a Soccer Mom

I never identified with the label until I saw how much my sons’ sports teams meant to them.

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Carrie Melago @carriemelago.bsky.social · 15d

Several years ago, I reluctantly became a soccer mom -- a label I never imagined embracing. Thanks to
@wsj.com
for running my essay about my change of heart. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...

How I Learned to Love Being a Soccer Mom

I never identified with the label until I saw how much my sons’ sports teams meant to them.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Sep 1

Allison “had graduated as a nursing assistant and had earned a $60,000 scholarship to attend Gardner-Webb University.”

Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · Sep 1

Allison, 20, has been detained for six months at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia.

She had nearly given up her legal fight due to health issues and unsanitary conditions at the facility.

Charlotte nursing student arrested by ICE in February to go to Honduras

ICE was looking for someone else when they raided the home of Allison Bustillo Chinchilla, 20.

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Carrie Melago @carriemelago.bsky.social · Aug 28

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, Chalkbeat spoke with five New Orleans educators about surviving the storm, teaching in Katrina’s wake, and how they understand the seismic changes to the city’s school system.
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/28/n...

‘I revert back to the pain’: New Orleans educators reflect on Katrina after 20 years

One remembered floating corpses. Another recalled kids living without their parents. And getting laid off couldn’t keep a determined math teacher and football coach away from the city’s students.

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Andrew Ujifusa @andrewujifusa.bsky.social · Aug 26

With well under half of students in Indianapolis Public Schools borders actually going to IPS-run schools, is the district going the way of New Orleans after Katrina? www.chalkbeat.org/indiana/2025...

Is this the end of Indianapolis Public Schools as we know it?

Indianapolis Public Schools enrollment is declining. Charter schools have secured bipartisan support and funding wins. And lawmakers are keen to see structural changes to IPS. Will the district go the...

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Carly Sitrin @carlysitrin.bsky.social · Aug 25

The stellar @rebeccaredelmeier.bsky.social got up at the crack of dawn to ride SEPTA to school with two Philly students. The whole trip took over an hour and they missed a bus and had to walk the last mile to Palumbo. These cuts are already having a real impact on Philly's young people:

Follow 2 students as SEPTA cuts complicate their commute on the first day of school

Students across Philadelphia are waking up earlier and waiting longer for SEPTA to get them to school. But many say they’re bound to be late anyway, with less reliable service and more crowded routes....

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Aug 22

Chalkbeat’s deep dive on a Bronx school; CBS News somehow misidentifies the sandwich-tosser; and the Memphis press follows along with Marsha Blackburn’s rules.

This week’s Laurels and Darts ⤵️

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Schoolkids in the Crosshairs

Keeping up with ICE. Plus: Crime in DC? Preschool in Oregon? And who tossed that sandwich?

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Andrew Ujifusa @andrewujifusa.bsky.social · Aug 20

6 takeaways from an interview with Zohran Mamdani’s favorite high school teacher: www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

Meet Zohran Mamdani’s favorite NYC high school teacher

Marc Kagan shares his memories teaching Zohran Mamdani at Bronx Science

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · Aug 20

It’s important to pay for local journalism but not like this.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips

THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.

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Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social · Aug 15

ICE splits a Queens family into three, sending a 7-year-old to a newly reopened family detention center in Texas. @gwynnefitz.bsky.social reports on the behind-closed-doors deportation arrests targeting young kids.

ICE Ships 7-Year-Old Queens Student and Mom to Texas Detention, Prompting School Principal’s Plea for Their Release

An older brother is detained in Newark while two other siblings remain in New York, “unprotected and traumatized” after arrests at immigration check-in.

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Jeff Horwitz @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social · Aug 14

"It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual." Meta removed that language from its internal guidelines after I raised it.

AI experts worry financial incentives will blur the line between human relationships and bot engagement.
www.reuters.com/investigates...

Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with children

An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.

www.reuters.com

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Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · Aug 14

Normally, in the final month of school, students at ELLIS Prep worried about moving to the next grade or graduating. This year, they wondered: “Is a masked person going to grab me off the street?”

'The goal is to survive': NYC school for immigrants faces an uncertain future under Trump

Normally, in the final month of school, students at ELLIS Prep worried about moving to the next grade or graduating. This year, they wondered: “Is a masked person going to grab me off the street?”

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Mike Elsen-Rooney @michaelelsenroo.bsky.social · Aug 14

Part 2 is out today. It’s about what happens after the deportation campaign arrives at ELLIS’ doorstep and the difficult choices facing Bridget and the school as they try to make it through the Trump administration.

www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · Aug 13

Here is your must edu-read of the day; terrific embedded reporting on the fear and stress our immigrant neighbors and their children are experiencing and the heroes trying to steer them through it

Mike Elsen-Rooney @michaelelsenroo.bsky.social · Aug 13

For 6 months, I’ve followed ELLIS, a Bronx HS for newcomers, to understand what it means to educate immigrant students in Trump’s second term.

Proud to share the 1st of 2 stories about ELLIS, Bridget, an undocumented teen, & the fight to keep her education alive.

www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

‘They’ve given her a lot of hope’: A NYC school fights to educate an undocumented teen under Trump

For Bridget and Marta, ELLIS Prep often felt like the only public institution with its arms open in a city and country that seemed not to want them.

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Andrew Ujifusa @andrewujifusa.bsky.social · Aug 13

“Be humble, love your sisters, keep moving forward. Don’t be like me and be nothing, and have to collect bottles.” www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025... via @chalkbeat.org

‘They’ve given her a lot of hope’: A NYC school fights to educate an undocumented teen under Trump

For Bridget and Marta, ELLIS Prep often felt like the only public institution with its arms open in a city and country that seemed not to want them.

www.chalkbeat.org

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Mike Elsen-Rooney @michaelelsenroo.bsky.social · Aug 13

For 6 months, I’ve followed ELLIS, a Bronx HS for newcomers, to understand what it means to educate immigrant students in Trump’s second term.

Proud to share the 1st of 2 stories about ELLIS, Bridget, an undocumented teen, & the fight to keep her education alive.

www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

‘They’ve given her a lot of hope’: A NYC school fights to educate an undocumented teen under Trump

For Bridget and Marta, ELLIS Prep often felt like the only public institution with its arms open in a city and country that seemed not to want them.

www.chalkbeat.org

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Carrie Melago @carriemelago.bsky.social · Aug 13

“It’s not going to be my fault that her dream dies." @MichaelElsenRoo spent months with an undocumented NYC student and the school fighting to keep her education hopes alive www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

‘They’ve given her a lot of hope’: A NYC school fights to educate an undocumented teen under Trump

For Bridget and Marta, ELLIS Prep often felt like the only public institution with its arms open in a city and country that seemed not to want them.

www.chalkbeat.org

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 10

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza

Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

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Carrie Melago @carriemelago.bsky.social · Aug 7

How much is your NYC school getting for the cell phone ban? www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

NYC schools get millions to implement student cellphone ban

With the state’s new ‘bell-to-bell’ ban, NYC schools are getting a cash infusion for cellphone storage. Find out how much your school is getting.

www.chalkbeat.org

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Carrie Melago @carriemelago.bsky.social · Aug 1

“The discovery is unlikely to affect Adams’ candidacy. Ballot petitions receive little, if any, scrutiny from city election officials.”
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Forged signatures found on Mayor Adams’ petitions to run as an independent

The Adams campaign said it is conducting a review after Gothamist found signatures that were fraudulently obtained or outright forged.

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Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · Jul 31

The SUN Bucks program is meant to help families pay for food for their kids all summer. But some Pennsylvania families are struggling due to the delay in getting the money distributed. The state says the benefit should be distributed to families by mid-August.

Pennsylvania’s summer food benefit for kids is delayed — again

The SUN Bucks program is meant to help families pay for food for their kids all summer. But some Pennsylvania families are struggling due to the delay in getting the money distributed. The state says the benefit should be distributed to families by mid-August.

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Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · Jul 31

Last year, 10 Black students received offers to Stuyvesent High School. This year, 8 did.

NYC specialized high school admission offers dip for Black and Latino students

Last year, 10 Black students received offers to Stuyvesent High School. This year, 8 did.

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Reuters Graphics @graphics.reuters.com · Jul 30

As many parts of the US brace for a sweltering week, our latest uncovers a critical and often overlooked intersection of climate change and correctional policy: The dangerous heat crisis within US prisons www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...

Scorching cells

How heat threatens lives in America’s prisons

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Mike Elsen-Rooney @michaelelsenroo.bsky.social · Jul 29

Enraging story from @alexzimmerman.bsky.social. NYC hasn’t paid its ~1,000 Teaching Fellows the entire 7 weeks they’ve been working this summer, forcing some to go into debt to cover rent and food. This at a time the city is trying to hire in historic numbers: www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

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