Jillian Jorgensen
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Emmy-nominated education reporter at NY1. NYC public schools graduate. Former newspaperwoman. Fan of pizza and pasta. jillian.jorgensen @charter .com
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One thing I like to do when I’m stressed out is make ravioli from scratch. It takes all day, it’s repetitive, it keeps my hands busy, it’s hard but not too hard to do while enjoying a glass of wine or two. And the reward is ravioli.
This is about to become a ravioli account.
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Hundreds of kids walked out of Brooklyn Tech today to protest the continuation of in person school during the Omicron wave and to call for a remote option
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(If you’re not from around here: Brooklyn Tech is one of the city’s prestigious specialized high schools, and it’s also the largest high school in the entire country)
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NEW from DOE on meals if schools close: "If a school is closed for 24 hours we’re prepared to serve grab-and-go breakfast and lunch for any student who wants it.”
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I am reminded by current events that, in May of 2013, I stayed at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. In a bedside drawer, where you might usually find a Bible, there was this. I was so struck I posted a picture of it at the time.
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Since when do the mayor and the NYPD decide what’s appropriate for adult college students to learn in the classrooms of a private university?
The mayor goes on to say "One professor poisoning a classroom of students" is just as bad as 50.
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Pretty staggering stat: this September, one in every 300 Americans will be sitting in a New York City public school. Good illustration of how huge the system of 1.1 million school children is.
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Area Woman Owns Coat
Kate Middleton re-wears blue Alexander McQueen coat for fourth time
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This is my best friend's great aunt, or as we call her, Aunt Mary. She survived rheumatic fever when she was 7 years old. Now, she's beaten coronavirus at 90.
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“I mean, it’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars?”
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An emotional moment as Yusef Salaam — an exonerated member of what was known as the “Central Park Five,” who spent nearly six years in prison — is introduced to the crowd as the next City Council member for Harlem.
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The Foo Fighters will play to a fully packed Madison Square Garden on June 20. Later that week, Tottenville High School will have to hold six separate graduation ceremonies because they're limited to no more than 500 people on their outdoor football field.
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Kids are walking out of schools around the city today to protest gun violence, including here at Central Park East II, a K-8 school in Manhattan. Part of a national walkout planned by
@StudentsDemand
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Some news about me:
Next month, I’ll be starting a new job covering education for NY1. I am excited to move to a new beat, a new medium, and new challenge — and to join the incredible team of journalists at NY1.
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Swiped at a broken turnstile. Swiped at a second one and got this. No
@MTA
MetroCard machines at this entrance. No way to use my already purchased monthly card. Two officers on the other side on fare-beating patrol, though.
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The scene at Stonewall in New York City as the names of those killed at Pulse in Orlando are read.
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I know the popular thing on Twitter is to hate anything fun and insist we must always be focused on our shared sense of Impending Doom, but I enjoyed the last couple hours of Anderson Cooper trying to have a good time with the musicians backstage. There, I said it.
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Students are skipping first period as part of a strike for integration they say they’ll hold every Monday until the city takes more bold action to desegregate schools.
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BREAKING:
@NYCMayor
says there will be NO remote option this fall for NYC public school students.
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So this marriage is like the opposite of a fairy tale. Instead of a regular person meeting a prince and being like wow amazing I get to live in a castle... the prince meets a regular person and is like wow the real world totally rules let’s do this instead
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I’ve said this many times after being hustled away from the mayor myself: the job of his armed police detail is to keep him safe from threats, not to keep him from safe from hearing a reporter’s questions.
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Amazon boss tells Council it will oppose unionization bids in New York City
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“ICE’s time has come and gone.” -
@NYCMayor
“Ms.
@Ocasio2018
-Cortez is right. We should abolish ICE.”
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can't remember the last time i watched a three-minute twitter video in its entirety but i could not click away from this one
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If I die on this hot platform waiting for a Brooklyn-bound F, just know my last thoughts were of the governor, and how he controls the MTA.
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don't let me catch anyone calling these high schoolers lazy or nasty names in my mentions today talking about the importance of student/child mental health next week
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.
@NYCMayor
’s son Dante was forced to vote by affidavit ballot — despite showing up at his polling place with his voting card from the Board of Elections, he wasn’t on the rolls.
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@NYCMayor
says that for school staff who test positive for coronavirus, it's a "very temporary reality." Think that might sound kind of tone deaf to teachers, considering the virus kills people and death is permanent.
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It is just occurring to me but how bizarre is it that there wasn’t a press conference or a briefing by police after this major security breach? To think of all the frantic pressers I’ve covered in NYC for smaller disruptions than this one.
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One of the tweets I think about often was deleted at some point, but thankfully WNYC preserved it in an article about great NYC tweets:
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Got people in my mentions from Texas and Pennsylvania saying fear of the virus is politically motivated & overblown/we don't take these precautions for the flu. Honestly, if you weren't in NYC at the height of the death and misery I don't find your opinion on this very relevant.
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If the word “cages” isn’t inaccurate, then it’s not the word that’s making Border Patrol uncomfortable — it’s the cages.
This just in from
@davidbegnaud
: Border Patrol has reached out to
@cbsthismorning
and said they are "very uncomfortable" with the use of the word cages. They say it's not inaccurate and added that they may be cages but people are not being treated like animals.
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PSA: Don’t do this.
You don’t know if you’re stepping into an emotional minefield when you make comments about whether someone has kids, but ya might be.
And back when I covered crime, nobody ever implied I need to commit one to do that job well.
Be kind.
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Remarkable to see protesters knocking down security barriers in DC being met with so many fewer police (at least that I can see on videos posted from the scene) than I saw at the peaceful marches I covered in NYC this summer.
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Last school year, nearly 10,000 preschoolers with disabilities went the entire school year without receiving a single session of legally mandated services like speech therapy, occupational therapy, or visits from a special education teacher.
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Current
@NYCMayor
staffers protesting him today:
People were just asked to raise your hand if you currently work in the administration. Wow.
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What frozen food would you most like to be the heiress to? For me, it's Pizza Rolls.
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The mayor’s health department told New Yorkers late last night that we should all act as if we have been exposed to coronavirus. Late this morning,
@NYCMayor
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45 minutes left to vote, New York!
📢Polls close at 9pm. If you are in line by 9pm, you will be allowed to vote. Find your pollsite at
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“He saved The Mets’ season is what he did. He was a brave McDonaldLand explorer. And in this house, Grimace is a hero, end of story!"
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Please don’t underestimate flooding. I covered Sandy on Staten Island and while this is different from a storm surge, there were tragic stories of people being suddenly overwhelmed by floodwaters, including in their own basements. Stay safe!
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BREAKING: Principals in NYC public schools received an email shortly after 2 pm saying NYC public schools will be CLOSED starting Thursday.
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Absolutely devastating news for all of us who loved following Flaco’s adventures. I’m so sad.
We are saddened to report that Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl discovered missing from
@centralparkzoo
after his exhibit was vandalized just over a year ago, is dead after an apparent collision with a building on West 89th Street in Manhattan.
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@NYCMayor
had a much stronger statement on separating children from their parents when somebody else's law enforcement force was doing the separating:
The most sacred duty of government is to protect people – especially defenseless children. There is nothing more barbaric than separating children from their parents. There is no excuse for this horror and certainly no reason.
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"You are my heroine. And by heroine, I mean lady hero. I don't want to inject you and listen to jazz."
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"You don't need butter, Jillian," a woman across from me in the airport says. I look up to see she is scolding her child, who has the same name as me. "Don't tell me what to do," the little Jillian responds, doing our name proud.
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Has anyone in NYC considered not running for mayor?
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Here’s an email kids at Brooklyn Tech got today, informing them of 114 cases in their school. On Friday they got a similar note reporting 85 cases.
Hundreds of kids walked out of Brooklyn Tech today to protest the continuation of in person school during the Omicron wave and to call for a remote option
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Personal opinion: I would rather hear from a united front of the mayor and governor about what’s happening to NYC schools than hear the governor’s personal opinions about human behavior
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NEW: NYC will phase out separate gifted and talented classes for students in public schools -- allowing current classes to remain in place until kids graduate them, but no longer separating students by ability. They say all students will have access to accelerated instruction.
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The only G&T I would like to discuss for the rest of the evening:
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Quick reminder that a bunch of Brooklyn principals put out a thoughtful and detailed plan for starting remotely and phasing in in-person learning in early October, which is basically where we are now, in... early August.
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Some of the mayoral candidates don't spend their downtime staring into the Zillow void and it shows
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My favorite hangover cure is an everything bagel with cream cheese, tomato, red onion, and bacon. In my home it is called The Concoction.
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Just a fun thought exercise. If you are mad that bike lanes take away driving lanes or parking, ask yourself why you are more entitled to that public space than a cyclist. The answer can't be "because that's how it was before." (And I say this as a driver who doesn't bike.)
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The mayor is citing concerns from principals and teachers unions as the reason for this last-minute delay.
They've been raising these concerns all summer. We've been reporting on them. They're really not new. The mayor has outright dismissed some of them at press conferences.
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This Scarborough debacle raises a deeply philosophical question: what does it mean to party?
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I have been talking to teachers all morning who say the mayor is disconnected from the reality inside schools. One teacher says she is down to her very last Clorox wipe. Nearly all say deep cleaning is not happening. One says custodian will only clean surfaces in common areas.
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My field producer is not very helpful. Only manages to distract me.
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Retweet me, male cowards
Study: male political reporters retweet other dudes 3 times more than their female colleagues
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Sort of amazed by all the people in my mentions blasting someone for living in public housing for 40 years. It ain’t free, folks. It’s not a shelter or emergency housing. It’s housing. These tenants pay rent.
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She’s running.
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Tourists seem unfazed. One just asked a cop in Times Square where Shake Shack is.
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Someone tapped me on the shoulder on a crowded train this morning. I turned around and it was a perfect little baby who then waved at me. Best commute in a while.
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Hearing how CNN describes Chelsea -- "up and coming," "undergoing a renaissance," makes me doubt everything they report.
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Please enjoy this picture of Phoenix looking extremely majestic in the snow taken by my sister.
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Thousands of students walking out here at Edward R. Murrow.
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Fewer than half of the city’s public school students went to class today, a Friday during a covid surge that saw a morning commute snowfall
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"400 ventilators? I need 30,000 ventilators. You want a pat on the back for 400 ventilators?" -
@NYGovCuomo
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...
Mom taking a hike runs into
@HillaryClinton
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@billclinton
took the photo
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(This is already happening in NYC, where Yang is running for mayor.)
I think teachers should be given preference for the vaccine if it helps us reopen schools more quickly.
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By the way -- this press conference is how school staff and administrators are finding out this news. I spoke to a principal and an assistant principal -- both in high schools, meaning their opening will be delayed -- minutes before the presser, neither knew this was coming.
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But I had to wonder: if my education hadn't prepared me to navigate dating Big, could Miranda's education prepare her to navigate education?
Cynthia Nixon thinks 'a lot of people' want her to run against Gov. Cuomo to fix education
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@HalleKiefer
@terrencemcd
There’s “unpleasantness” between Jane Krakowski and Cynthia Nixon... which we know, weirdly, from a freedom of information law dump of Mayor de Blasio’s emails
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Everything in my life sucks right now, but we already had our Halloween costumes, so:
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Wall Street Journal reporter:
Lost my glasses and my ankle is in searing pain after NYPD hit me in the face multiple times with riot shields and pushed me to the ground. I was backing away as request, with my hands up. My NYPD-issued press badge was clearly visible. I’m just sitting here crying. This sucks.
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Due to supply chain issues, I have totally run out of energy. Unclear when it will be back in stock.
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"Well, you know, that's life in the fast lane."
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The mayor and police commissioner have kind of brushed this off whenever asked about it. But can you imagine if, say, teachers just decided not to wear masks in school because it made doing their job difficult/annoying/unpleasant/etc?
Taking the subway this morning. The only person not wearing her mask properly is an NYPD officer. When I asked her to pull it up, she refused and moved to the other side of the car.
Tough time to try and engage with New Yorkers on public health.
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Flash flood warning, stay out of your basement. Tornado warning, seek shelter in a basement. Not great.
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While I projected that today would be the day I started eating healthy, there was an error in my modeling and it turns out I ate candy for breakfast.
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In case we were short on metaphors, flames started shooting out of the subway station directly outside the mayor's office today.
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For all the non-NYC people finding this tweet — it is about the New York City DOE, not federal. Don’t know what if any nationwide plans exist yet.
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The biggest question I have this morning is why this storm felt like it came out of nowhere. No calls for folks in low-lying areas or basement apartments to evacuate. Was it just that unprecedented/unexpected/different than the forecast?
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The judge has issued his ruling in the DOE budget case: He's throwing out the DOE budget, reverting it to the prior fiscal year, and allowing the City Council a new vote.
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Adams, a retired NYPD officer, has been an ardent supporter of “broken windows” policing — going after small, quality of life crimes to prevent big ones.
But here he dismisses placard abuse... a quality of life offense often committed by law enforcement officials.
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When this is all over, on a perfect, blue-sky day, I'm going to invite you all to ride the Staten Island Ferry with me right around sunset. We can buy beers at the snack bar and have a toast. It's going to be great.
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Last week, Sofia, 16, a non verbal District 75 student, saw a school bus parked on her street.
She put on her coat and backpack; she used her speech device to say she wanted to go to school.
She stayed there most of the day. Her mom snapped this photo.
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