Rachel Cohen
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Laurene Powell Jobs has given millions to reinvent the American high school. Is it working?
Matt Barnum - Chalkbeat 36h 1 tweets
XQ, one of the best-funded school reform initiatives, has struggled to translate its spending and unconventional strategy into widespread attention to its cause.
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Rachel Cohen meanwhile seems pretty fine throwing away tens of millions of dollars on Rethinking High School 36h
The Atlantic, Propped Up by Laurene Powell Jobs, Charts New Course
Lukas I. Alpert - WSJ 36h 3 tweets
The Atlantic magazine, which has beefed up its staff and expanded its coverage in the past 18 months, faces a test when it launches a new paywall strategy sometime after Labor Day.
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Rachel Cohen 😕 36h
A California Bill Could Transform the Lives of Gig Workers. Silicon Valley Wants Labor’s Help To Stop It.
The Intercept 3d 1 tweets
Gig economy workers who support the legislation view it as a necessary step toward their ability to collectively organize. Uber and Lyft want a workaround.
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Rachel Cohen my deep-dive on #AB5, the bill that could transform the lives of gig workers and independent contractors in California 3d
Bernie Sanders’s Green New Deal, explained
Vox 4d 3 tweets
The Vermont Senator has finally put out his own plan to fight climate change. It’s big.
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Rachel Cohen this is good: "$200 billion for the United Nations Green Climate Fund to help other countries reduce their emissions" 4d
Deadspin Editor Quits, Rails Against Bosses: ‘I’ve Been Repeatedly Lied To and Gaslit’
Max Tani - The Daily Beast 9d 16 tweets
The new bosses in charge of what used to be the Gawker network of websites have drastically upended the culture, Greenwell said, leaving her no choice but to resign.
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Rachel Cohen "Among the many grievances, Greenwell said, G/O leadership refused to guarantee editorial independence for Deadspin" 9d
Hong Kong Airport Suspends Check-Ins in 2nd Day of Disruptive Protests
Mike Ives - Nytimes.com 13d 2 tweets
Protesters stopped some travelers from reaching their departure gates, hours after the city’s leader pleaded for order amid escalating unrest.
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Rachel Cohen these Hong Kong airport protests are stunning 13d
At the Walmart in El Paso, Serving Shoppers Meant Saving Them
Nytimes.com 18d 1 tweets
When a gunman opened fire last Saturday, store employees leaned on their active-shooter training. Since then, they have been leaning on one another.
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Rachel Cohen read what the extremely brave El Paso Walmart workers did during the attack 18d
Amid Conservative Assault on Organized Labor, Democratic Lawmakers Are Advancing Laws to Expand Workers’ Rights
The Intercept 21d 1 tweets
Nevada and Delaware passed laws this summer giving public-sector workers the right to collectively bargain. Colorado is expected to follow suit next year.
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Rachel Cohen Earlier this summer Nevada extended collective bargaining rights to more than 20,000 state workers, Delaware extended bargaining rights to 2,000 state workers, and Colorado will likely follow suit next session for 26,000 state workers 21d
The Just Transition for Coal Workers Can Start Now. Colorado Is Showing How.
Inthesetimes.com 33d 1 tweets
In These Times features award-winning investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, insightful analysis of national and international affairs, and sharp cultural criticism about events and ideas that matter.
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Rachel Cohen New at : I looked at how and why Colorado's labor movement decided to lead on climate change 33d
Inside Hushed Museum Hallways, a Rumble Over Pay Grows Louder
Robin Pogrebin - Nytimes.com 33d 2 tweets
Art workers around the country are sharing their salaries and in some cases forming unions to put pressure on their institutions.
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Rachel Cohen Art museum workers are organizing, inspired by digital journalists and grad students (!) 33d
Trump Tells Freshman Congresswomen to ‘Go Back’ to the Countries They Came From
Katie Rogers, Nicholas Fandos - Nytimes.com 42d 19 tweets
The president’s attack, which Democrats slammed as a racist trope, was meant for four progressive freshmen who have clashed with Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Only one was born outside the United States.
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Rachel Cohen exhibit A 42d
Are Democrats now the party of open borders?
Mother Jones 45d 6 tweets
 
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Rachel Cohen extremely embarrassed right now for 44d
The White Suburbs That Fought Busing Aren’t So White Anymore
The Atlantic 45d 6 tweets
And the politics of school integration need not look like they used to.
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Rachel Cohen in 1980, white suburbanites were *ten times* as likely to live in a functionally all-white neighborhood as they were a diverse neighborhood. Today they're 2.5 times more likely to live in a diverse neighborhood 45d
The Courts Still Say No One Knows What Causes Segregation. A New Book Argues That’s Absurd.
Slate Magazine 50d 1 tweets
Maybe the civil rights leaders of a half-century ago were right.
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Rachel Cohen reposting my review of Color of Law, which talks about the deep harms of the Milliken decision. Warren was only 42 years ahead of the curve 50d
Elizabeth Warren's first law review article blasted an anti-busing court ruling
CNN 50d 6 tweets
Warren's law review article sheds a new light on an early-career stance on busing previously unknown that stands in stark contrast to Vice President Joe Biden in the 1970s.
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Rachel Cohen 🔥 Liz Warren’s first law review article in 1975 was criticizing Milliken v. Bradley - a terrible Supreme Court decision that made school integration on the federal level much harder 51d
Will Bernie Sanders Stick With a Carbon Tax In His Push For a Green New Deal?
The Intercept 53d 3 tweets
Sanders is a longtime proponent of taxing the country’s worst polluters, but he’s said very little about a carbon tax on the 2020 campaign trail.
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Rachel Cohen this piece includes a lot of great work from other climate reporters, including , , , , , , , , , , , . takes a village! 53d
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Rachel Cohen so in the end Sanders backed away from the carbon tax, the climate policy he's championed for years 4d
Threats of deportation raids frighten Baltimore immigrants: 'They're afraid to go outside'
baltimoresun.com 62d 1 tweets
In Highlandtown and other Baltimore neighborhoods that are home to many Hispanic immigrants, the Trump administration’s threats have stoked fears.
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Rachel Cohen this is a heartbreaking story, and an utterly shameful situation 62d
How Teach for America Evolved Into an Arm of the Charter School Movement
Annie Waldman - ProPublica 69d 7 tweets
Documents obtained by ProPublica show that the Walton foundation, a staunch supporter of school choice and Teach for America’s largest private funder, was paying $4,000 for every teacher placed in a traditional public school — and $6,000 for every...
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Rachel Cohen super thorough look at Teach for America from 69d
The Latest from Navigator Research
Navigator 69d 2 tweets
The Public Demands Proposals That Clearly Address Both Coverage And Costs
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Rachel Cohen supporters of Medicare for All need to start engaging polls like this more seriously 69d
But, What Do the Black Working-Class Voters of Youngstown, Ohio, Think?
Slate Magazine 70d 11 tweets
Talking to the blue-collar residents the national media usually ignores.
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Rachel Cohen “For residents who remember the good years, there’s a feeling of whiplash. A good job now pays $15 an hour. It used to be $30.” 70d