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    • In the Dark

    Season Two: The Trailer

    Words and deeds out of alignment for potential Cabinet appointment and Fox News personality

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    Chapter 4: Gaman - Making Do

    Featured Documentaries

    APM Reports has produced more than 140 audio documentaries on topics such as health, history, education and justice.

    • Hard to Read: How American Schools Fail Kids with Dyslexia
      Hard to Read

      How American schools fail kids with dyslexia

    • Trump Immigration
      Shadow Class

      College dreamers in Trump's America

    • What It Takes
      What it Takes

      Two high-poverty schools chase better graduation rates

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      Shackled Legacy

      History shows slavery helped build many U.S. colleges and universities

    • Keeping Teachers
      Keeping Teachers

      Black men and teachers in rural areas are in especially short supply

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      Rewriting the Sentence

      College behind bars: Keeping an idea alive

    Be informed: Get notified when APM Reports publishes new stories.

    The Educate Podcast

    • Elementary kids using iPads in school

      Schools prove soft targets for hackers

      April 9
    • Peter O'Halloran works as an administrative assistant in Philadelphia

      High schools push few students with disabilities to consider college

      March 26
    • ALICE

      Is the trauma of training for a school shooter worth it?

      March 12
    • Students graduating at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

      A college degree, or your money back

      February 26

    Recent Stories

    Curtis Flowers

    Season Two: The Trailer

    Curtis Flowers has been tried six times for the same crime. For 21 years, Flowers has maintained his innocence. He's won appeal after appeal, but every time, the prosecutor just tries the case again. What does the evidence reveal? And how can the justice system ignore the prosecutor's record and keep Flowers on death row?

    DJ Gribbin with President Donald Trump

    Trump's infrastructure czar steps down

    by Tom Scheck

    The departure of DJ Gribbin is the latest sign that the president's plan is going nowhere fast.

    ethics grid

    More than half of Trump's 20-person Cabinet has engaged in questionable or unethical conduct

    Ethics experts are alarmed at the drumbeat of revelations about travel, business holdings and investments, warning that public trust and reliable government are at risk. A former ethics official asks: "If the boss doesn't care, why should you, then?"

    Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth

    Words and deeds out of alignment for potential Cabinet appointment and Fox News personality

    by Tom Scheck

    Pete Hegseth, a decorated Army veteran thought to be considered to run Veteran's Affairs, portrays himself as a defender of traditional family values despite extramarital affairs with co-workers and divorces.

    Minneapolis Police Department graduation ceremony

    Minneapolis increases psychological testing for police officers

    by Curtis Gilbert

    The city's police department has hired a new psychologist to improve the way it screens recruits after an APM Reports investigation revealed that its procedures didn't meet national standards.

    Dyslexia laws by state

    States' laws to support dyslexic children mostly lack funding, accountability, training mandates

    by Emily Hanford

    A recent APM Reports documentary showed how schools aren't adequately complying with a decades-old federal law but new state laws are failing to help struggling readers, too.

    Police Officer Fatal Shooting

    Some states training police to use words, not guns

    by David Clarey

    A follow up to an APM Reports investigation finds that five additional states have mandated de-escalation training for officers, bringing the total to only 21.

    Mesabi Academy in Buhl, Minn.

    More families sue Mesabi Academy owner

    by Rilyn Eischens

    Eight former residents have joined litigation alleging abuse and neglect at the Minnesota youth facility.

    Minneapolis police academy graduation

    Minneapolis police recruits get less psychological testing than they used to

    by Curtis Gilbert

    The protocol is less rigorous than best practices nationally and the evaluator lacked the proper license. Police leaders are moving to replace him for another reason: They believe he screened out too many minority candidates.

    Wilbur Ross

    Criticized for ship holdings, Ross owns more than previously known and the deals continue

    by Tom Scheck and Maria Curi

    Most of the 75 ships transport oil and gas products worldwide, presenting a conflict of interest for the commerce secretary as he negotiates trade deals. Records show 11 purchases since March. Ross has come under fire for not disclosing Russia-tied ship business and a U.S. senator wants an investigation.

    Navigator Ceres

    Top Wilbur Ross aide played a role in trade deal while on the board of shipping firm tied to Russia

    by Tom Scheck and Maria Curi

    The agreement with China will increase U.S. exports of liquid natural gas. Navigator Holdings, which could gain from increased drilling, has a business partnership with a Russian-owned firm and is partially owned by Ross via an offshore investment fund. For dealmaker Wendy Teramoto — Ross' chief of staff and Navigator board member at the time — it raises a conflict of interest.

    Donald Trump

    On infrastructure, now what? Trump's turn away from public-private model brings uncertainty

    by Tom Scheck

    With private money at a record level and projects ready to go, the president decides the partnerships are "more trouble than they're worth," leaving states to make their own deals with investors and to hope for federal funding.

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