Amanda Pitts

I do not think that letting my anxious child read a story that talks about how many people walk around with brain tumors is a good thing.

Today's "I know what the answer should be but it's wrong," 4th grade math edition.

One Huge caveat is that these numbers don't include opt-out rates. It's easier to have a 98% passing rate if less than 40% of the students took the test.

Brooklyn school district rocked by CEC’s ‘No Confidence’ vote in superintendent, DOE urges mediation • Brooklyn Paper “It feels like a dictatorship that he's running,” said CEC23 member Stefanie, who asked to be identified by first name only, "like he sees us as beneath him,

My latest for Brooklyn Paper is about D23 and the apparent difficulties between its Superintendent and its Community Education Council - enough for that CEC to vote "No Confidence" towards him.

www.brooklynpaper.com/cec23-no-con...

It was funded by Door dash and two out of state billionaires, and had to go back to 2020 to get some of the "scare" quotes. Someone's scared and it's not Mamdani!

Texas banned abortion. Then sepsis rates soared. | CNN Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis.

I almost died due to a 2nd trimester miscarriage, and would have were I not in NYC. Pregnancy health is healthcare, so many non-viable pregnancies have "heartbeats," yet somehow Texas wants to see more dead parents. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/h...

Literally the only time I will measure spices are 1) my dad's chili recipe, and 2) salting ratios for large slow cooked meats. Otherwise it's heart measurements only.

Since you can't target ads to people under age 13, why does Google allow signed-in educational accounts for k-12 districts to show YouTube ads? Our kids get ads served to them with no way to turn them off.

And I had been regularly able to get Vyvanse, until last month when literally zero of it came into the pharmacy that I usually use. :(

Do you know when the cover photo was taken? I.e. was it recent or from a while ago?