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Oliver Morrison

@ORMorrison

Investigative reporter @PennLive. Formerly @905wesa @PublicSourcePA, @kansasdotcom, @newmarkjschool. Send tips to [email protected]

Pittsburgh, PA Katılım Mayıs 2013
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Oliver Morrison
Oliver Morrison@ORMorrison·
A Pa. school's been growing faster than any school before. I've spent the past 6 months looking into why and what it means for education in Pa. Today you can read Part I of: "Virtual Dominance: How a cyber charter school has upended K-12 education in Pa.” pennlive.com/education/2025…
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Rich Lord
Rich Lord@richelord·
Is your Pittsburgh neighborhood slated to stabilize, sustain, strengthen, restore, adapt or transform? The $6 million comprehensive plan for the next 25 years is heading down the home stretch publicsource.org/explaining-pit…
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Oliver Morrison@ORMorrison·
The Pulitzer controversy exposes a flaw in the awards system: you never learn why stories aren’t chosen. It lacks transparency. It would be more work but perhaps worthwhile to take the time to explain (and therefore leave open for debate) the reasons why stories were NOT chosen.
julie k. brown@jkbjournalist

I guess it wasn't "novel" to track down 80 victims (all their names redacted from court documents, meaning I had to find them), convince 8 of them to speak to me, four on the record-- and on camera! Does anyone understand how difficult that was? It was so difficult that I contacted sexual assault psychiatrists to guide me so that I wouldn't re-traumatize them. 1/

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Sean Casten
Sean Casten@SeanCasten·
It’s rare to see really good, accurate public reporting on what’s driving the economics of our electric sector, in jargon-free language that everyone can understand. So read this. It’s excellent. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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Oliver Morrison@ORMorrison·
Roger Goodell announces that Pittsburgh set a record with 320,000 fans on the first day of the NFL draft.
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Oliver Morrison@ORMorrison·
@DKThomp The phrase "competency porn" misses a key part of what unites shows like the Pitt and the West Wing: It's not just that they show skillfulness but they differentiate between characters who are and aren't willing to engage with the moral complexity of the situations they face.
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Brian Nemhauser
Brian Nemhauser@hawkblogger·
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Kamin Science Center
Kamin Science Center@KaminScienceCtr·
🚧 2026 NFL Draft Operations Update 🚧 Due to road closures and security access related to the 2026 NFL Draft, Kamin Science Center will be temporarily closed to the general public from April 13–May 1, 2026.
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Alec MacGillis
Alec MacGillis@AlecMacGillis·
More than half of children in France are not living with married parents. I knew it was high, but didn't realize that high. In Sweden, half. And Japan!
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Oliver Morrison@ORMorrison·
@401Casey If you have the headquarters of big companies like Amazon and Microsoft there, isn't there some reason to think many of these people will kind of be forced to stay? Obviously the billionaire class can do what it wants but do you think this is enough to make them move?
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Casey Jacobson@401Casey·
All this to say: NY and CA will be fine ultimately, Washington State is in huge trouble.
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Casey Jacobson@401Casey·
As a reformed municipal bond guy two stories have fascinated me the last couple weeks and they are of course very related. Washington state implementing an income tax and the downgrade of New York City
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Oliver Morrison@ORMorrison·
@Malliard I think you could probably use those total SPED expenses to make a pretty good comparison. If it were me, though, I would probably talk to a couple of education finance experts to make sure it made sense.
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Jim Malliard
Jim Malliard@Malliard·
Question for reporters covering Pennsylvania education: Why is it so hard for parents to find a simple breakdown of district vs charter vs cyber costs? Wouldn't transparency help everyone understand the debate better? I'm willing to talk with any newsroom interested.
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Oliver Morrison@ORMorrison·
@Malliard The district doesn't have special education 'rates' in the same way charters/cybers do. Districts pay a rate to charters/cybers based on how much $ they spent. 1200 lists those SPED expenses. The 363 form uses those expenses and their enrollment to calculate those rates.
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Jim Malliard
Jim Malliard@Malliard·
@ORMorrison No per student. We are looking to be apples to apples remember.
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Oliver Morrison@ORMorrison·
@Malliard If you look on the first tab, total sped instructional expenses are listed under 1200 "special programs" expenses / column N.
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Oliver Morrison@ORMorrison·
@Malliard If you use a Vlookup function using the AUN # in column A you can put them side-by-side.
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Jim Malliard
Jim Malliard@Malliard·
@ORMorrison No, I don't see district information on it. It's almost like they don't want them compared.
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Oliver Morrison@ORMorrison·
@karenvaites I read the piece and am not clear from your comment what part of it you had a problem with. Why do you think the evidence is clearer than what was presented in his article?
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Karen Vaites
Karen Vaites@karenvaites·
Matt Barnum’s whole schtick is to give air cover to the education establishment for its mistakes by sowing ambiguity about the increasingly-obvious. It’s a trend since 2020 (his heyday on the wrong side of an issue), and the overlap between his evolution from journalist to Air Cover Provider and Chalkbeat’s diminished influence in K-12 is nearly a circle. @elizwgreen
Alexander Russo@alexanderrusso

"There’s no smoking-gun data showing that ed-tech is at the root of, or even contributing to, recent learning declines. But Horvath’s case should still give schools and educators some pause." chalkbeat.org/2026/03/17/jar…

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NWS Pittsburgh
NWS Pittsburgh@NWSPittsburgh·
We're receiving reports across western PA and eastern OH of a loud boom and a fireball in the sky. Our satellite data suggest it was possibly a meteor entering the atmosphere.
NWS Cleveland@NWSCLE

@jacecraftmiller The latest GLM imagery (1301Z) does suggest that the boom was a result of a meteor.

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