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Teacher absences and vacancies are impacting student learning and school operations as teacher absence rates increased and the substitute teacher fill-rate declined. By Jennifer Chambers On October 9, 2023 A year-long study examining the challenges facing Michigan’s K-12 workforce found that teacher absences and vacancies are impacting student learning and school operations as teacher absence…

By Claire Pressoir and Tanya Birkbeck On September 9, 2023 PORT-AU-PRINCE – Violence caused by armed groups, economic slowdown and climate-related effects continue to drive high levels of hunger in Haiti, according to a new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report issued last week. Despite a reduction in the number of people facing acute…

By Mike Corder and Julia Frankel On October 14, 2023 DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Desperate Palestinians scrambled for escape from northern Gaza on Saturday or huddled by the thousands at a hospital in the target zone in hopes it would be spared, as Israel intensified warnings of an imminent offensive by air, ground and…

On October 13, 2023 The development follows an announcement by UN Spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, just before midnight Eastern Standard Time on Thursday, that UN representatives in Gaza had been told by Israeli military liaison officers everyone living north of Wadi Gaza should relocate to southern Gaza within 24 hours. Some 1.1 million people would be expected to…

‘His sentencing is yet another indication that freedom of the press has been completely quashed under the military junta’s rule,’ says Myanmar Now editor-in-chief By Alisha Rahaman Sarkar On September 7, 2023 A military tribunal in Myanmar sentenced a photojournalist to 20 years in prison with hard labour for covering the destruction in the aftermath of a…

It’s one of the jail’s smallest populations in decades, but it could swell again as defendants deemed too risky to release remain locked up. By Chip Mitchell On October 11, 2023 The Cook County Jail population has dipped below 5,000 for only the second time in nearly four decades, a drop experts are linking to…

By Paul Flahive On October 10, 2023 Kiheem Grant attacked a guard, according to prison officials and was subsequently beaten so bad he has yet to wake up. His mother wants to know why. Thirteen were fired or resigned in the aftermath. Get TPR’s best stories of the day and a jump start to the…

Progressives celebrated a 2019 law meant to reform solitary confinement. But the state’s Department of Corrections doesn’t seem to be following it. By Christopher Blackwell & Nina Zweig On October 7, 2023 This story is part of the Inside/Out Journalism Project by Type Investigations, which works with incarcerated reporters to produce ambitious, feature-length investigations, with support from…

By Keaton Ross On October 5, 2023 During the early morning count on Saturday, Aug. 26, state corrections officers found Vincent Willis dead in his cell at the Dick Conner Correctional Center in Hominy.  The 59-year-old prisoner died overnight in his sleep, according to an offender death report obtained through the Oklahoma Open Records Act.…

Montgomery county jail’s population is only 600 people – and all seven deaths happened within days of entering the facility, during pre-trial detention By Stephen Starr On October 5, 2023 Days after Steven Blackshear was booked into Montgomery county jail in downtown Dayton, Ohio, in January, a nurse found him shaking, in a fetal position and…