Rachel Cohen
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Unions See an Opening in the Wake of a Ruling That Was Supposed to Finish Them Off
The Intercept 11d 1 tweets
At a conference in Washington, labor leaders said their losses following the Supreme Court's decision in Janus were not as severe as they had feared.
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Rachel Cohen I went to a conference of labor leaders and activists and the mood was far more excited than I think anyone would have anticipated a year ago 11d
Day Care for All
Nytimes.com 13d 45 tweets
The progressive to-do list is missing a very important idea.
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Rachel Cohen hard agree with moving day care up the progressive agenda 13d
Abolish Billionaires
Nytimes.com 16d 26 tweets
A radical idea is gaining adherents on the left. It’s the perfect way to blunt tech-driven inequality.
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Rachel Cohen conventional wisdom changes so fast and it's one of the most underrated lessons of politics 16d
The Hidden Costs of Losing Your City's Newspaper
Kriston Capps - CityLab 269d 26 tweets
Those vanishing civic watchdogs are worth every cent.
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Rachel Cohen 29d
Teachers reject Denver Public Schools’ offer, will vote to strike Saturday and Tuesday
The Denver Post 34d 1 tweets
The Denver Classroom Teachers Association rejected Denver Public Schools’ final proposal on a new contract laying out educators’ pay structure late Friday, hours before members of the t…
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Rachel Cohen "We anticipate a strike" - Denver teacher union president 34d
Summit Learning is spreading with little evidence of success
Matt Barnum - Chalkbeat 36d 3 tweets
Summit Learning, a fast-growing “personalized learning” system, touts a partnership with Harvard researchers even though Summit actually turned down their proposal to study the model.
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Rachel Cohen “Research inspired” is a phrase I will be using from now on 36d
Amid Internal Investigation Over Leaks to Media, the Center for American Progress Fires Two Staffers
The Intercept 38d 9 tweets
The staffers were investigated for leaking an email exchange to The Intercept that reflected improper influence by the UAE within the think tank.
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Rachel Cohen "The Intercept’s request for comment on that story prompted an internal leak investigation at , which included searching employees’ emails without their knowledge." 37d
College, the Skills Gap, and the Student Loan Crisis
The American Prospect 46d 1 tweets
A conversation with economist Marshall Steinbaum on how we should rethink inequality and higher education.
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Rachel Cohen here's telling me about the lack of evidence three years ago 46d
The "skills gap" was a lie
Matthew Yglesias - Vox 46d 12 tweets
New research shows it was the consequence of high unemployment rather than its cause.
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Rachel Cohen more research discrediting the bipartisan "skills gap" 46d
Los Angeles Teachers Poised to Strike
The American Prospect 47d 1 tweets
The union in the nation’s second largest school district is calling for an end to the privatization of public schools.
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Rachel Cohen I wrote a story for about why Los Angeles teachers might strike this week, their first labor stoppage since 1989 47d
Why Civil Rights Groups Are Suing New Jersey Over School Segregation
Rachel Cohen - CityLab 50d 2 tweets
The rare legal challenge is one of only a handful of desegregation cases decided at the state level, and it’s revealing the complex dynamics of New Jersey’s urban-suburban mix.
Elizabeth Warren Introduces Plan to Expand Affordable Housing and Dismantle Racist Zoning Practices
The Intercept 147d 4 tweets
The Massachusetts senator introduced a bill this week that would create up to 3.2 million housing units for low- and middle-class families over 10 years.
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Rachel Cohen ICYMI her housing bill introduced in September is the most ambitious federal housing bill in decades 53d
My favorite work from 2018
Rmcohen.substack.com 54d 1 tweets
2018 was a busy year for me. I published more than 80 stories, across 19 different outlets. I took up a lot more investigative reporting (and discovered I quite like it). I also created this newsletter! I’m grateful for your readership, which has...
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Rachel Cohen this was my first full year of freelancing, and it was exciting, exhausting, challenging, and rewarding. I published over 80 stories in 2018, and picked out 15 I'm most proud of 54d
Special Ed. Advocates Call for Investigation Into Unlicensed Company Serving Charter Students
Washington City Paper 65d 1 tweets
Kids get videos and worksheets in an unmarked house in Southeast D.C.
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Rachel Cohen “I don’t have ties or commitments with no schools, no charter, no nothing,” Sharon Holley-Ward told me. “It’s just if they call me and they say ‘hey can you service a kid.’” 65d
Louisiana School Made Headlines for Sending Black Kids to Elite Colleges. Here’s the Reality.
Nytimes.com 85d 99 tweets
T.M. Landry, a school in small-town Louisiana, has garnered national attention for vaulting its underprivileged black students to elite colleges. But the school cut corners and doctored college applications.
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Rachel Cohen This is a big, important story by and on TM Landry, must-read 85d
Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
Nytimes.com 100d 228 tweets
Russian meddling, data sharing, hate speech — the social network faced one scandal after another. This is how Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg responded.
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Rachel Cohen you've got to be kidding me 100d
The CIA's communications suffered a catastrophic compromise. It started in Iran.
Yahoo.com 113d 27 tweets
From around 2009 to 2013, the U.S. intelligence community experienced crippling intelligence failures related to the secret internet-based communications system, a key means for remote messaging between CIA officers and their sources.
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Rachel Cohen wow 113d
Georgia Domestic Workers Mobilize For Stacey Abrams In The Birthplace Of Their Movement
Laura Bassett - HuffPost 115d 5 tweets
Long erased from the popular narrative of the civil rights and labor movements, household workers are at the heart of a historic bid for governor.
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Rachel Cohen great story about domestic workers in Georgia campaigning for Stacey Abrams 115d
Democratic Consulting Firm Teams Up With Hospital Industry to Battle Nurses Union
The Intercept 126d 2 tweets
In Massachusetts, an industry-funded campaign being run by Democratic consultants threatens to derail a ballot initiative to create a nurse-staffing limit.
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Rachel Cohen I wrote about the battle to get nurse-to-patient limits in Massachusetts 126d
D.C.’s Master Facilities Plan Will Shape the City's Balance Between Neighborhood Schools and Charters
Washington City Paper 132d 1 tweets
But the city is hiding key data required to make that plan from the public.
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Rachel Cohen 1. I'm going to respond to this criticism of my WCP article () because it's not just factually wrong, but it gets at something much more serious that deserves attention. 132d