O’Matz and Smith Richards report education appointees’ school agendas
Megan O’Matz and Jennifer Smith Richards investigate Education Department appointees’ agendas for public schools. Separate newsroom context describes the department’s response as ProPublica’s account. [ProPublica] [ProPublica]
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Megan O’Matz, Jennifer Smith Richards published the article “These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.” on 2025-10-08. [ProPublica]
Ornstein later described antagonistic responses to the reporters’ outreach. [ProPublica]
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Publication date is October 8, 2025. The separately cited December 29 newsroom account retrospectively describes prepublication outreach and responses. Its reproduced correspondence is first-person publisher evidence, not a separately inspected original departmental release. Underlying policy consequences and motives require independent evidence. [ProPublica] [ProPublica]
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- Original reporting or analysis · ProPublicaEducation Department investigation (exact headline in publication fact)
First body paragraphs in republish HTML, beginning with McMahon and continuing through appointees; byline/date.
https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-public-schools-activists-linda-mcmahon-trump - First-person newsroom account of reaction · ProPublicaNewsroom outreach account
Body paragraphs 1-12: education reporters’ outreach and department responses; December 29, 2025 publication.
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-reaching-out-reporting-obstacles
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