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Lily Altavena

4 months

ICYMI: Flint's school district has been in a free-falling crisis in the decade since the water crisis began, with a 35% 4-year grad rate, and a 55% enrollment decline. What will it take to put the district on the right path?

In the decade following the water crisis' beginning, Flint's school district has suffered

Students have left Flint Community Schools in droves while more buildings sit vacant. However, school officials say they have a plan for turnaround.

www.freep.com

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

I missed this part of the press conference because I was talking to the superintendent of an AZ school district where three teachers contracted COVID-19 teaching summer school in the same room. One teacher died. They took every precaution, the superintendent said.

Anne Ryman

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Dr. Rebecca Sunenshine of Maricopa County Department of Public Health "What we know is children learn best in an in-person environment. With community- wide transmission at such high levels right now, it would not be a good idea to put school back in session."

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2 years

I know Oxford survivors who attend MSU. Thinking of them tonight and the tapestry of gun violence young adults of this generation experience.

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They wore masks. They kept space. They used disinfectant. But all three Arizona teachers in a team teaching model in one room came down with COVID-19 and one, Kim Byrd, died. "We're going to lose a lot of teachers if they bring the kids back again."

As Trump pushes to reopen schools, Arizona school leaders face more uncertainty

Arizona school and public health leaders are processing calls from the Trump administration to reopen schools, as pandemic continues its surge through state.

www.azcentral.com

Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

I missed this part of the press conference because I was talking to the superintendent of an AZ school district where three teachers contracted COVID-19 teaching summer school in the same room. One teacher died. They took every precaution, the superintendent said.

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

6 years

Six year-old member of the Sikh community: “I want people to learn about me.” To the state board on history standards.

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

All I asked was, “How’s the quarantine going?”

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

9 months

even journalists get asked questions sometimes

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@lilyalta

4 years

I just called Kyrene School board member John King about these emails, he said "I'm not responding to you" and hung up the phone

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

NEW: Phoenix Union will not have school resource officers on its campuses, will not renew agreement with Phoenix PD. Story to come.

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

3 years

This is the first school shooting I've had to cover in my four years as an education reporter. It is as terrible and confusing as many have described. My heart is breaking for every student and parent and this whole community.

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@lilyalta

2 years

@fortesalatifi it’s *our* Disneyland

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4 years

Second time at dog daycare, and Winston is, once again, frozen in the corner away from everyone else

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

NEW: 751 Arizona teachers have resigned or retired since the beginning of the school year.

Survey: 751 Arizona teachers have resigned or retired since the beginning of the school year

About 28% of teaching positions in Arizona remained vacant at the start of the school year, compared with 21% last year, the data shows.

www.azcentral.com

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

1979 "Feminist nominated as judge"

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

3 years

Wow, just a classic example of a man dismissing education as "women's work" or not important. I can't stand one more day of people disregarding education journalism because of their own internalized misogyny.

barrett marson

@barrettmarson

3 years

Congrats on the move. But how much did @mpolletta abhor @azcentral to go from the premier beat at the state’s largest paper to the education beat? Answer: A LOT

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

Hi everyone - I have some news! Next Tuesday (2/23) is my last day @azcentral . I started reading The Arizona Republic at age 13, when I first moved here. Covering K-12 education here has been a dream and an honor.

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

Trump asked about Kimberley Byrd, Arizona teacher who died while teaching summer school

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

4 years

Trump on his message to parents worried about the safety of their kids in public schools amid a pandemic: "Yeah, the schools should be opened. Schools should be opened. Kids want to go to schools. You're losing a lot of lives by keeping things closed."

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Lily Altavena

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4 years

BREAKING: 1,072 AZ teachers have resigned since the beginning of the school year, compared with 758 around this time last year

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@lilyalta

1 year

People in Michigan back into parking spots at an unheard of rate. What are you all preparing for?!?!

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

2 years

I’m thinking back to last week when we interviewed a survivor of December’s Oxford shooting who said survivors in Parkland were the closest to “getting anyone to listen.” He said Oxford felt like a trend on Twitter and “then we were gone.”

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

3 years

Morning! It's my first day covering inequities in education at @freep . I'll be covering these issues across Michigan. I've got *a lot* to learn, but I'm really excited for this new beat.

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

Also here is a glamour shot, the world needs to know

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

no we’re definitely still covering COVID-19 and protests. And we’re covering all that while we get furloughed, laid off, and criticized by people who somehow think haphazardly scrolling through their Twitter news feed equates to actually reading the news

Steve Krakauer

@SteveKrak

4 years

We know the media leans left - this is beyond politics. I’m not sure anything will erode the public’s trust more than the last 10 days. To go from canvassing beaches to shame a few people for not social distancing to covering thousands with no mention of coronavirus is stunning.

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Lily Altavena

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6 years

good morning to everyone except my sister who just said about local journalism, "it's hard to justify shelling out money for what's widely free." I would like to clear up this misconception

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

Arizona now the highest for COVID in the nation. Schools continue to close, Chandler Unified being the latest. Businesses are still open. Chandler's board president, at state inaction: "I truly question the commitment of our state to educating kids."

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

I’m fed up with a narrative focused solely on TV and national news. This week alone I covered reopening plans for Arizona schools, teacher salaries, on-campus police, and systemic racism claims at a Gilbert school. My colleagues did even more. Start reading local. Pay attention.

Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

|￣￣￣￣| | READ | | LOCAL | | NEWS | | ＿＿＿____| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / 　づ

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

To recap: I asked Ducey what might be included in the benchmarks and we did not hear what specific data we'll be relying on. He said there's a menu of options for parents. What parents don't have: Any clear sense of whether it's safe to go back or the expectations for schools.

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

2 years

Actually I know of many journalists who came from highly privileged backgrounds, which is partly why there is so much inequity in this business... journalists should think more critically about writing lines like this

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

3 years

Sinema's aide once physically blocked me in 2017, her hand on my shoulder, to prevent me from asking a question about Backpage donations. This was after weeks of calling her office every day to no avail. She was at my journalism school giving a talk about the first amendment.

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No response from @SenatorSinema to my questions about reconciliation top lines, whether she opposes tax increases to pay for it, or whether she owes Arizonans more public explanations of her positions.

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

3 years

Detroit Public Schools just approved a vaccine mandate for all staff members

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

STORY

As Trump pushes to reopen schools, Arizona school leaders face more uncertainty

Arizona school and public health leaders are processing calls from the Trump administration to reopen schools, as pandemic continues its surge through state.

www.azcentral.com

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

BREAKING: AZ DHS, county public health are not recommending widespread school closures in Arizona, per Supt. Hoffman in conference call with Ducey, districts.

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@lilyalta

3 years

*whispers* it’s ok to change your mind about something when you learn new information

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@lilyalta

4 years

I've confirmed with Gilbert Public Schools that bus driver Roy Haug passed away on Oct. 13. Reports, including from his sister-in-law, state that Roy contracted COVID-19.

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

Really glad others have heard Byrd’s story, but it’s disheartening to see CNN and others parachute in on this story without crediting @azcentral , which first reported

3 educators battled COVID-19 after teaching in the same room. 1 died. Now, they have a warning

An Arizona teacher is dead after contracting COVID-19. Three teachers tested positive after teaching in the same classroom.

www.azcentral.com

Yashar Ali 🐘

@yashar

4 years

Three Arizona teachers who shared a classroom got coronavirus. One of them died

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

And while the schools announcement was major, the education reporter for the paper of-record in the state... did not get to ask a question. I'm one of very few reporters in this state who only covers K-12, and unless I heard wrong, none of the others were called on either.

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

3 years

I am SO exhausted by the notion that education journalism is "less than" or "not investigative." I cannot tell you how many men have implicitly or not-so-implicitly told me that the beat I love, a beat centered around children and inequities, is lesser than male-centric beats.

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

2 years

and honestly just to illustrate my point, the author of this NYT story is NORA EPHRON'S SON

Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

2 years

Actually I know of many journalists who came from highly privileged backgrounds, which is partly why there is so much inequity in this business... journalists should think more critically about writing lines like this

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1 year

really excited to share that I bought a custom Panera themed bicycle off of FB Marketplace, complete with a bread bowl baskets. It joins my limited edition Sharpie adult razor scooter

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

If you're a teacher who resigned, DM me - I want to interview you

Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

NEW: 751 Arizona teachers have resigned or retired since the beginning of the school year.

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4 years

Here is the teacher who died, Kim Byrd. A first-grade teacher who was "one-of-a-kind." I'll be learning more about Kim tomorrow.

Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

They wore masks. They kept space. They used disinfectant. But all three Arizona teachers in a team teaching model in one room came down with COVID-19 and one, Kim Byrd, died. "We're going to lose a lot of teachers if they bring the kids back again."

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

NEW: Balsz teachers this week will begin a series of workshops about The 1619 Project. The goal is for teachers to bring lessons from the project to the classroom. This makes Balsz one of the first in the state to use the initiative led by @nhannahjones

Balsz School District one of the first in the state to use 'The 1619 Project' in schools

The Balsz Elementary School District in east Phoenix is starting "The 1619 Project," which helps educators examine slavery's impact on the nation.

www.azcentral.com

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

Also, in news not related to a pandemic shutting all the schools down, I adopted this sweet boy from @azhumane ! His name is Winston. 😭He’ll be working (and cuddling) long days with me to make sure you have all the education news.

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

1 year

✅ something happens ✅ write about that thing

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4 years

🗣️📢local education reporters also do worthy education journalism and that work should be highlighted, too

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

if one of you doesn’t adopt Stud Muffin before Christmas, I’ll never forgive you

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

6 years

So, to recap, Mesa, the state's largest school district, just passed a letter to educators in support of their #RedForEd efforts. Tomorrow around 70 of the district's 80 schools will conduct walk-ins. Board has directed the letter to be sent to the AZ legislature and governor.

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

Picked him up and he was smiling/tail wagging! I adopted a dog with BIG anxiety, which is a good match for my own personality. He reminds me to patient and empathetic. Plus, he is a very sweet cuddler and it's so much fun to watch him slowly open up the world.

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Lily Altavena

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4 years

NEW: Ducey says school guideline changes made at the request of leading education officials, the state's leading education officials says she made no such request (I've asked ADHS and Ducey to provide a list of those consulted)

Arizona schools chief Kathy Hoffman, Doug Ducey at odds over new school closure guidelines

After Gov. Doug Ducey said state health officials revised school COVID guidelines at the request of public education leaders Kathy Hoffman wrote that the Arizona Department of Education made no such...

www.azcentral.com

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

6 years

18 year-old Hugo Gastelum is skipping calculus to vote. As he puts it, there's no "voting tutors" but there are calculus tutors to help him catch up. He's in the back of the line at ASU's polling place. #ElectionDayAZ

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4 years

A school board comment from a Mesa student: "How are you going to help a teacher that got sick? Are you going to tell those students that their teacher died? How are you going to help the students affected by their teacher's death? And how are you going to deal with the guilt..."

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Lily Altavena

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4 years

There is a young Tik Tok user who appears to go out to Scottsdale bars and clubs nearly every night with big groups and has traveled multiple times in the last two months. I’m just... so... tired

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

It’s not his first Christmas, but it’s his first Christmas with me 🥰

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4 years

Educators should have access to vaccine by the end of January, Dr. Cara Christ says

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@lilyalta

4 years

Just spoke to a doctor from Harvard's school of public health who specializes in airborne infection who said in his opinion, schools in Arizona should not reopen because of the level of transmission in the state.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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OPEN THE SCHOOLS!!!

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Lily Altavena

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2 years

This is a bad take. School violence - gun or otherwise - impacts kids. Threats do. I get an alert of a school threat every day. This is not normal. 39,000 undergraduate students attend MSU and scores of them are managing trauma in ways they never have before.

Alexander Russo

@alexanderrusso

2 years

School gun violence is exceedingly rare. Focusing on it hurts kids and schools. And the reporting process can be traumatic for survivors & journalists alike. So why are we doing it, again? On the 5th anniversary of Parkland, I propose we stop.

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

69 Arizona physicians sign onto letter calling a return to in-person schooling in August "dangerous," join calls to delay in-person school until at least October

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@lilyalta

3 years

yes bc of course my email habits to elected officials we're trying to hold accountable would mirror my habits in dating... obligatory: would you have tweeted this if I were a man

Zach Henry

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3 years

Man, I would never want to break up with this one.

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@lilyalta

3 years

The critical race theory fight in AZ is a rebrand of the Purple For Parents fight against equity programs that dates back to at least 2019, if not longer. It started with misinformation about sex ed and morphed into misinformation about equity

Conservative groups, Tucker Carlson target Arizona school equity programs

A group is trying to dismantle school district equity programs created after an outcry by community members over the treatment of students of color.

www.azcentral.com

Doug Ducey

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Today I am proud to sign HB 2906, prohibiting the concerning practice of critical race theory, the latest action in just the past week to prevent the teaching of critical race theory in Arizona public schools and other government entities 1/

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

Just heard a man working on a roof say “what’s the worst that could happen?” and I didn’t realize in 2020 that we were still brazenly tempting fate

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1 year

it's inequities, not inequalities.... I'm proud to do journalism that focuses on disparities in our education systems, and proud that @freep saw the value in this beat

Walter P. Duro

@waltduro

1 year

Now-a-Days, @Freep writers do not even hide their bias…it’s written into their bios Here, Lily Altavena ( @lilyalta ) does not merely say she covers Ed Issues, rather “Inequalities” in Education Starts with Leftist Agenda Item, searches for “evidence” to support her premise

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@lilyalta

2 years

this is not why I became an education reporter

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

“For American educators this is a great day for y’all, you’re going to have one of your own in the White House” -Biden

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

Here’s the story I reported:

As Trump pushes to reopen schools, Arizona school leaders face more uncertainty

Arizona school and public health leaders are processing calls from the Trump administration to reopen schools, as pandemic continues its surge through state.

www.azcentral.com

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

3 years

@JessicaHuseman I guess I'd ask, why does she, or any artist, owe you music that's empowering? And was there a meeting where we decided what's an OK/not OK reaction to a breakup? Or what's normal/not normal?

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Lily Altavena

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2 years

New, today: Loud noises are hard for Lauren, now a survivor of 2 mass shootings, Oxford and MSU. Find yourself scanning a room for danger? Looking for exits? Flinching at loud noises After Oxford, I did. How layers of trauma create hypervigilance:

An onslaught of trauma is creating a generation on alert

Survivors of multiple traumatic events might find themselves becoming hypervigilant. Here's what that means.

www.freep.com

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

2 years

are you waiting for the Taylor Swift midnight release, NAEP score midnight release or both

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

Parents, teachers: I'm tracking COVID-19 cases and outbreaks in Arizona schools, but I need your help. If you hear of an exposure, or if your school notifies you of an exposure, please contact me: Lily.Altavena @arizonarepublic .com. (also, pls RT)

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4 years

NEW: This morning I interviewed the educators who got sick in rural Arizona after teaching summer school together. One still has a cough. The other is still testing positive. They are both feeling raw and heartbroken over the death of their friend.

3 educators battled COVID-19 after teaching in the same room. 1 died. Now, they have a warning

An Arizona teacher is dead after contracting COVID-19. Three teachers tested positive after teaching in the same classroom.

www.azcentral.com

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

ah yes one of my favorite signs in Arizona

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

So I don’t have COVID but somehow managed to come down with pneumonia!!! The last 24 hours have not been fun!! Here’s a reminder that other respiratory illnesses are still out there, wear a mask, stay safe and stay home so our hospitals aren’t overwhelmed.

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8 months

name a more adorable newspaper, you can’t

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3 years

Starting a new job in the pandemic while everyone is still remote is kind of like you’re playing The Circle.

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@lilyalta

4 years

is "we did it!" the right phrase here

NWS Phoenix

@NWSPhoenix

4 years

We did it! 50 days of 110 or greater this summer in Phoenix. #azwx

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@lilyalta

4 years

@AlexandriaV2005 Probably a sign that you need to diversify your media diet if you don't consider the LA Times or SF Chronicle "major news outlets." Don't erase local journalism. Fresno Bee and Sac Bee also covering the fires extensively.

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@lilyalta

3 years

I just want to remind everyone in Arizona that Valley Fever is very real and very serious and I have been dealing with it now for EIGHT MONTHS

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@lilyalta

3 years

If you don't think this kind of journalism is important, you're part of the problem. And it's more than just saying you think education journalism is important. Invest in your education journalists.

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@lilyalta

4 years

Jill Biden has said she’ll continue to teach as First Lady:

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@lilyalta

4 years

Now: several hundred teens marching from Steele Indian School Park to the Phoenix Union district office

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@lilyalta

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Reminder as it rains today: Arizona schools continue to struggle with capital funding, which means leaks and flooding inside schools and when it rains

It's raining in some Arizona classrooms that lack funding for repairs

Schools have asked state officials to fund weatherization and roof repair projects over the past several years but are not getting the help they need.

www.azcentral.com

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1 year

folks, just got an alert for a dream job

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@lilyalta

3 years

An embarrassing thing I’ve done now for six months has been eating those Caulipower chicken tenders thinking they were cauliflower. Today I learned it’s chicken. The breading is cauliflower.

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@lilyalta

4 years

Please subscribe to your local newspaper. I'm the only education reporter at the paper, covering Arizona's 1.1 million public school students. Some smaller Gannett papers don't even have education reporters. Some don't have health reporters.

Gregory Holman 📲📻

@gregoryholman

4 years

New today: @Gannett announced unpaid newsroom furloughs of 1 week per month during April, May and June. We’re told journalists earning more than $38K are subject to the plan. This is prompted by COVID-19

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Lily Altavena

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3 years

Got a little misty-eyed today. I’m working at my hometown paper, in the town my mom grew up in and was a newspaper reporter, on its 190th birthday. Happy 190th, @freep ! You don’t look a day over 30.

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4 years

just an update I responded then immediately unmatched

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@lilyalta

4 years

I don't have words. Please tell me this is a joke. Nearly every story my colleagues and I wrote in the past five months has been about COVID-19. Subscribe to a local newspaper before tweeting about how the news didn't cover _______.

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4 years

BREAKING: AP makes Prop. 208 call

Melissa Egan

@_MelissaEgan

4 years

JUST IN: #Arizona 's Prop 208 approved, per @AP . Will impose a 3.5% income tax surcharge on taxable annual income over $250K for single persons, $500K for couples. Could bring in nearly $1 billion of new revenue annually to the state’s underfunded school system. @KOLDNews

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I interviewed two teens for this story forever changed by what they saw and heard on Tuesday. One froze through the gunfire, but two quick-thinking freshman may have saved her life.

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@lilyalta

3 years

Found this in my desk my first day full-time, it never really helped

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4 years

NEW: the calls for Ducey to delay in-person school until October are rising.

Dozens of Arizona school board members to Ducey: Delay in-person school opening until October

More than 60 school board members have signed onto a letter asking Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey to delay reopening in-person schooling until October.

www.azcentral.com

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

1 year

So stunned and honored. I wasn’t an Ed reporter when I attended my first EWA in 2023, but it was all I wanted to be.

Education Writers Association

@EdWriters

1 year

Congratulations to the @EdWriters #ewaAWARDS winner for Beat Reporting (Midsize Newsroom) @lilyalta of @freep !

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

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In 1918, Phoenix opened schools in Sepmtember. They were closed by October.

Lauren Camera

@laurenonthehill

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The politics of reopening schools – specifically reopening in-person as quickly as possible – will all but ensure that 50 million children enrolled public schools will be back to remote learning for the 2020-21 academic year, public health experts warn

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

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it'd be so cool if teens were taught the basic nuances of HIPAA, FERPA and public records laws in high school

Acyn

@Acyn

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Question: Have you yourself been vaccinated? Greene: Your first question is a violation of my HIPAA rights

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

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Today is my last day in Arizona 🥺

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

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hey education reporters (and parents and educators and students and humans), if you're like to me, you're probably feeling ground down by yet another uncertain and chaotic back-to-school season. Don't live on Twitter and try to take a break from the noise. ❤️

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

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STORY

Kyrene school board member appears to threaten constituent's law career after email about reopening

A woman in the Kyrene school district emailed her board member to push to delay reopening schools. The response shocked her.

www.azcentral.com

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

4 years

Children do, in fact, contract COVID-19.

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

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This is not OK. Our photographers, especially Patrick, go above and beyond in taking care in their photos when children are involved. This is not how adults act.

Patrick Breen 🌵

@pjbreenphoto

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Rattled. Was just accosted while taking photos at a baseball tournament in Mesa. Parents yelled for me to not take pictures of their kid. I agreed and asked which kid was theirs. They didn’t want to say and said if I did they would “kick my ass.” They yelled I was the fake

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

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Checked in with a few K-12 survivors who were at MSU last night. The trauma is tremendous. MSU is offering resources. Reporters, please consult the Dart Center on trauma reporting before you interview.

Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

2 years

I know Oxford survivors who attend MSU. Thinking of them tonight and the tapestry of gun violence young adults of this generation experience.

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

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I’m already seeing unconfirmed information (potentially misinformation) on here about the situation at MSU. Retweet carefully. Students are terrified.

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Lily Altavena

@lilyalta

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NEW: Maricopa County just informed me that it won't publicly name any of the schools reporting possible COVID-19 outbreaks.

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