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From the Data, Educational Disparities Emerge
The analyses showed stark racial and ethnic disparities in student retentions, but states continue to plow forward with the policies, doing almost no analyses on their own. The racial gaps surprised even experts.
Tags: racial gaps; education
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U.S. Fails to Proect Workers in Anarctica
Anartica is a land that conjures images of brave explorers and dedicated scientists striving amid stark beauty. But an in-depth investigation reveals that is also a place where workplace safety severely lags, and injured workers face unforeseen obstacles to get compensation.
Tags: Worker's Compensation; Anartica; Obstacles; Workplace Safety
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"FEMA's Toxic Bureaucracy"
After nearly a year of reporting, the CBS News Investigative Unit reported a string of "discrimination, sexual harassment and cronyism in the New Orleans" FEMA office. Several staff members went on camera to share stories revealing the "toxic environment" of the FEMA office. Just a day after the story aired, an internal investigation was launched by FEMA, and the Chief of Staff was quickly transferred.
Tags: Gulf Coast Recovery; Nancy Ward; Federal Emergency Management Agency; FEMA Louisiana Transitional Recovery; Doug Whitmer; Joseph Cao; Jim Stark; Mary Landrieu
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Secret City
This investigation explored how residents of Starke, Florida bilked the Florida Department of Corrections. WTLV-TV uncovered a compound of staff housing near the prison that was not on maps, housed nonessential personnel, and was kept in guarded secrecy. Prison officials kicked the First Coast News Team off the property several times. The prison is under federal and state investigation.
Tags: prison; Department of Corrections; corruption; Starke; Florida
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Dental Woes
Tipped off by a series of complaints against Family Dental Care Associates, WCPO TV investigate further to bring out some starking revelations. The investigation reveals, apart from fraudulent billing practices, the low standards of cleanliness and hygiene maintained by FDCA. Parts of the investigation also focused on a state investigation by the Attorney General's office and relationships between the dental board's investigator and FDCA's cheif dentist, Dr. J Michael Fuchs.
Tags: dental chain; malpractice; patient care; sterilize; tape; transcript; 18:31
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State Vehicles
In stark contrast with Ohio's huge deficits, the state's fleet counts for a healthy 12,568 vehicles. This story that investigates ten state agencies reveals how none of them share a uniform policy regarding use of state vehicles by their employees. And though only a few agencies have their own rules for reimbursement issues, one of these agencies was breaking its own rules.
Tags: Bob Taft; state vehicles; state fleet
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The Color Threshold
Reporters from The Argus, analyzed the home mortgage lending to find stark disparities in denial rates for people from ethnic minorities. They found that Hispanics and Blacks were twice as likely to be turned down in the various counties in California. The article also concentrated on possible ways of solving the problem.
Tags: Hispanics; African American; Minorities; home mortgage loans; denial of home mortgage loans
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Black and blue- Thwarting gangs, bustin' heads in Northwest Pasadena
The Pasadena Weekly investigates the excessive use of force by the police while arrested three teens engaged in a street brawl. The investigation reveals stark contradictions between police reports and eye witness accounts. Also, the eight police reports do not match with each other. For example, one of the arrested teens was charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon although there was no sign of a weapon at the scene or mentioned in any of the police reports.
Tags: El Sereno Ave; Michael Miller; Carlton Crayton; Joe Brown
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Broken Promises: 25 years after we unlocked the mentally ill
The Journal Sentinel tells the stories of five mentally ill Wisconsin residents lost in the state deinstitutinalized mental health care system. Deinstitunilization "was simple in concept: Instead of housing the stark hospital fortress of the era, all but the most dangerous or self-destructive would be released into what advocates hoped would be caring communities across the land." Today, the stories reveal, some of the released walk the streets, and some have been accepted back into society. But -- more or less -- the well-intentioned reforms in the mental health care system from a generation ago have changed their lives.
Tags: drugs; homeless; crack dealers; cocaine; sexual abuse; neglect; bipolar disorder; depression; jails; schizophrenia; corrections
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Loaded for trouble: Why we can't stop drinking and driving
The Inquirer investigates why the drunken driving problem is so persistent in Philadelphia and nationwide. The series' main findings are that there is a link between bar concentrations and crashes points; disparities in law enforcement from one town to another hamper efforts to curb drunken driving; DUI crash and arrest numbers are deceptively low because they do not count for hit-runs and the many cases when drunken drivers are on the road before arrested.
Tags: police; courts; automobiles; road accidents; databases; computer-assisted reporting; database mapping project