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Tyler Kingkade
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NBC News National Reporter. Iowa raised, Los Angeles living. Bad at social media, good at petting animals. On Signal: tylerkingkadenbc.20

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Why is Bill de Blasio broadcasting from the woods in a suit??
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
how to fix it? here's one answer
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"Moulton is now sober, and her son, who recently celebrated his second birthday, is one of 21 babies who survived out of the 54 cases reviewed" -- I mean, thank God for he survived, but no one should be born this way
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
the $1 billion part came out of nowhere
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
ex-DOJ lawyer explains how the civil rights investigation at the University of California system got started www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Margaret Spellings, the Ed Sec'y under George W. Bush, weighs in on the changes announced today to move several core functions of the Ed Dept to other federal agencies
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Among the many ironies:

- 3 of the math teachers attacked were Charlie Kirk fans and voted for Trump
- the high school has a chapter of Turning Point USA, and they defended the teachers (letter below)
- one of the math teachers told me he doesn't allow people to discuss politics in his class
November 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
In just a few days, the district received over 3,000 hateful and obscene messages.

Teachers stayed home. Sheriff’s deputies stepped up patrols on campus. Confused students asked if they were safe at school.
November 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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
October 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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
October 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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)
October 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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) sourcenm.com/2025/04/29/c...
October 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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
October 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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
October 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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.
October 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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
October 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
October 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
damn, google. savage.
September 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Want to feel old? These are Toms shoes now
September 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
During Ryan Walters' last meeting with the Oklahoma State Board of Education today, he continued to refuse to let the board vote on teachers facing disciplinary action

www.oklahoman.com/story/news/s...
September 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Trader Joe’s World is a bleak place
September 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
UPDATE: A federal judge today stopped the University of South Dakota from moving forward with the process to fire a professor for calling Kirk a "hate spreading Nazi" on Facebook

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
After dozens of educators nationwide were fired or suspended for social media posts about Charlie Kirk, several have now filed federal lawsuits, saying these schools violated their First Amendment rights

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
September 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
An activist accused a school admin in Wisconsin of celebrating Charlie Kirk's death

Except it wasn't her

He later retracted it (the same day he boasted getting 1 million followers) but her district was already being harassed

More here in my latest -->

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... @nbcnews.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Had a great time seeing Noel’s High Flying Birds featuring Liam Gallagher
September 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM