Carrie Melago
@carriemelago.bsky.social
Editing at @documentedny.bsky.social. Priors: Chalkbeat, WSJ, NY Daily News, New Haven Register. Coal miner's granddaughter. Ms. @jonlemire.bsky.social I’m crafty and write about my kids. https://www.clippings.me/carriemelago
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Carrie Melago
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· Sep 25
How I Learned to Love Being a Soccer Mom
I never identified with the label until I saw how much my sons’ sports teams meant to them.
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Several years ago, I reluctantly became a soccer mom -- a label I never imagined embracing. Thanks to
@wsj.com
for running my essay about my change of heart. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
@wsj.com
for running my essay about my change of heart. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
While Chinatown residents say they want long-standing quality-of-life concerns to be taken seriously, many say that ICE raids are not the answer. documentedny.com/2025/12/23/c...
Chinatown Residents Say Illegal Street Vending Is a Real Problem — But ICE Raids Aren’t the Solution - Documented
Now that a decades-old local problem has suddenly become nationalized, Chinatown finds itself caught between disorder and deportation.
documentedny.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
While Chinatown residents say they want long-standing quality-of-life concerns to be taken seriously, many say that ICE raids are not the answer. documentedny.com/2025/12/23/c...
Reposted by Carrie Melago
The death of Salisha Ali, a Trinidadian immigrant who was allegedly killed by her partner, highlights a pattern of violence that community leaders say is tied to immigration dependency and historical trauma.
Woman’s Killing Echoes a Deadly Pattern for Indo-Caribbean Women in New York - Documented
The death of Salisha Ali, a Trinidadian immigrant who was allegedly killed by her abusive partner, highlights a pattern of violence that community leaders say is tied to immigration dependency and historical trauma.
documentedny.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The death of Salisha Ali, a Trinidadian immigrant who was allegedly killed by her partner, highlights a pattern of violence that community leaders say is tied to immigration dependency and historical trauma.
The number of abandoned asylum cases in 2025 is roughly double that of last year – a trend that experts say is a consequence of new administrative hurdles. documentedny.com/2025/12/19/a...
Abandoned Asylum Cases Have Doubled in 2025, Data Shows - Documented
New findings suggest that the immigration system — largely driven by fear and new administrative traps — makes it dangerously easy for families to lose their cases without ever having their day in cou...
documentedny.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The number of abandoned asylum cases in 2025 is roughly double that of last year – a trend that experts say is a consequence of new administrative hurdles. documentedny.com/2025/12/19/a...
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Read Immigration News Today -->
TSA Forwards Passenger Identities and Flight Details to ICE - Documented
Plus: U.S. citizenship interviews canceled on Long Island, and DHS reportedly changing enforcement tactics following negative polls
documentedny.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Read Immigration News Today -->
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Find free winter coat drives and locations in NYC. Open to all, donations welcome. documentedny.com/2025/11/26/f...
Where To Get or Donate Free Winter Coats in NYC - Documented
Find free winter coat drives and locations in NYC. Get equipped for winter with warm layers and coats. Open to all, donations welcome.
documentedny.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Find free winter coat drives and locations in NYC. Open to all, donations welcome. documentedny.com/2025/11/26/f...
"Asked if he has a message for all those kids shouting “six seven” in school instead of paying attention, he replies: “Six seven.”" www.wsj.com/lifestyle/si...
The Numbers Six and Seven Are Making Life Hell for Math Teachers
‘Six seven’ sends teens into a frenzy that schools have been powerless to stop. ‘It’s like throwing catnip at cats.’
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October 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"Asked if he has a message for all those kids shouting “six seven” in school instead of paying attention, he replies: “Six seven.”" www.wsj.com/lifestyle/si...
Wow big NYC high school admissions change — in-person essays for Beacon instead of remote.
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www.beaconschool.org/apps/pages/i...
The Beacon School
The Beacon School
www.beaconschool.org
September 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Wow big NYC high school admissions change — in-person essays for Beacon instead of remote.
www.beaconschool.org/apps/pages/i...
www.beaconschool.org/apps/pages/i...
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I never identified with the label “soccer mom”—until I saw how much my sons’ sports teams meant to them, writes Carrie Melago.
How I Learned to Love Being a Soccer Mom
I never identified with the label until I saw how much my sons’ sports teams meant to them.
on.wsj.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I never identified with the label “soccer mom”—until I saw how much my sons’ sports teams meant to them, writes Carrie Melago.
Several years ago, I reluctantly became a soccer mom -- a label I never imagined embracing. Thanks to
@wsj.com
for running my essay about my change of heart. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
@wsj.com
for running my essay about my change of heart. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
How I Learned to Love Being a Soccer Mom
I never identified with the label until I saw how much my sons’ sports teams meant to them.
www.wsj.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Several years ago, I reluctantly became a soccer mom -- a label I never imagined embracing. Thanks to
@wsj.com
for running my essay about my change of heart. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
@wsj.com
for running my essay about my change of heart. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
Reposted by Carrie Melago
Allison “had graduated as a nursing assistant and had earned a $60,000 scholarship to attend Gardner-Webb University.”
Allison, 20, has been detained for six months at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia.
She had nearly given up her legal fight due to health issues and unsanitary conditions at the facility.
She had nearly given up her legal fight due to health issues and unsanitary conditions at the facility.
Charlotte nursing student arrested by ICE in February to go to Honduras
ICE was looking for someone else when they raided the home of Allison Bustillo Chinchilla, 20.
www.charlotteobserver.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Allison “had graduated as a nursing assistant and had earned a $60,000 scholarship to attend Gardner-Webb University.”
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, Chalkbeat spoke with five New Orleans educators about surviving the storm, teaching in Katrina’s wake, and how they understand the seismic changes to the city’s school system.
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/28/n...
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/28/n...
‘I revert back to the pain’: New Orleans educators reflect on Katrina after 20 years
One remembered floating corpses. Another recalled kids living without their parents. And getting laid off couldn’t keep a determined math teacher and football coach away from the city’s students.
www.chalkbeat.org
August 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, Chalkbeat spoke with five New Orleans educators about surviving the storm, teaching in Katrina’s wake, and how they understand the seismic changes to the city’s school system.
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/28/n...
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/28/n...
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With well under half of students in Indianapolis Public Schools borders actually going to IPS-run schools, is the district going the way of New Orleans after Katrina? www.chalkbeat.org/indiana/2025...
Is this the end of Indianapolis Public Schools as we know it?
Indianapolis Public Schools enrollment is declining. Charter schools have secured bipartisan support and funding wins. And lawmakers are keen to see structural changes to IPS. Will the district go the...
www.chalkbeat.org
August 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
With well under half of students in Indianapolis Public Schools borders actually going to IPS-run schools, is the district going the way of New Orleans after Katrina? www.chalkbeat.org/indiana/2025...
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The stellar @rebeccaredelmeier.bsky.social got up at the crack of dawn to ride SEPTA to school with two Philly students. The whole trip took over an hour and they missed a bus and had to walk the last mile to Palumbo. These cuts are already having a real impact on Philly's young people:
Follow 2 students as SEPTA cuts complicate their commute on the first day of school
Students across Philadelphia are waking up earlier and waiting longer for SEPTA to get them to school. But many say they’re bound to be late anyway, with less reliable service and more crowded routes....
www.chalkbeat.org
August 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The stellar @rebeccaredelmeier.bsky.social got up at the crack of dawn to ride SEPTA to school with two Philly students. The whole trip took over an hour and they missed a bus and had to walk the last mile to Palumbo. These cuts are already having a real impact on Philly's young people:
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Chalkbeat’s deep dive on a Bronx school; CBS News somehow misidentifies the sandwich-tosser; and the Memphis press follows along with Marsha Blackburn’s rules.
This week’s Laurels and Darts ⤵️
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This week’s Laurels and Darts ⤵️
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Schoolkids in the Crosshairs
Keeping up with ICE. Plus: Crime in DC? Preschool in Oregon? And who tossed that sandwich?
www.cjr.org
August 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Chalkbeat’s deep dive on a Bronx school; CBS News somehow misidentifies the sandwich-tosser; and the Memphis press follows along with Marsha Blackburn’s rules.
This week’s Laurels and Darts ⤵️
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This week’s Laurels and Darts ⤵️
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
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6 takeaways from an interview with Zohran Mamdani’s favorite high school teacher: www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
Meet Zohran Mamdani’s favorite NYC high school teacher
Marc Kagan shares his memories teaching Zohran Mamdani at Bronx Science
www.chalkbeat.org
August 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
6 takeaways from an interview with Zohran Mamdani’s favorite high school teacher: www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
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ICE splits a Queens family into three, sending a 7-year-old to a newly reopened family detention center in Texas. @gwynnefitz.bsky.social reports on the behind-closed-doors deportation arrests targeting young kids.
ICE Ships 7-Year-Old Queens Student and Mom to Texas Detention, Prompting School Principal’s Plea for Their Release
An older brother is detained in Newark while two other siblings remain in New York, “unprotected and traumatized” after arrests at immigration check-in.
www.thecity.nyc
August 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
ICE splits a Queens family into three, sending a 7-year-old to a newly reopened family detention center in Texas. @gwynnefitz.bsky.social reports on the behind-closed-doors deportation arrests targeting young kids.
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"It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual." Meta removed that language from its internal guidelines after I raised it.
AI experts worry financial incentives will blur the line between human relationships and bot engagement.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
AI experts worry financial incentives will blur the line between human relationships and bot engagement.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with children
An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.
www.reuters.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual." Meta removed that language from its internal guidelines after I raised it.
AI experts worry financial incentives will blur the line between human relationships and bot engagement.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
AI experts worry financial incentives will blur the line between human relationships and bot engagement.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
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Normally, in the final month of school, students at ELLIS Prep worried about moving to the next grade or graduating. This year, they wondered: “Is a masked person going to grab me off the street?”
'The goal is to survive': NYC school for immigrants faces an uncertain future under Trump
Normally, in the final month of school, students at ELLIS Prep worried about moving to the next grade or graduating. This year, they wondered: “Is a masked person going to grab me off the street?”
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August 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Normally, in the final month of school, students at ELLIS Prep worried about moving to the next grade or graduating. This year, they wondered: “Is a masked person going to grab me off the street?”
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Part 2 is out today. It’s about what happens after the deportation campaign arrives at ELLIS’ doorstep and the difficult choices facing Bridget and the school as they try to make it through the Trump administration.
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
August 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Part 2 is out today. It’s about what happens after the deportation campaign arrives at ELLIS’ doorstep and the difficult choices facing Bridget and the school as they try to make it through the Trump administration.
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
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Here is your must edu-read of the day; terrific embedded reporting on the fear and stress our immigrant neighbors and their children are experiencing and the heroes trying to steer them through it
For 6 months, I’ve followed ELLIS, a Bronx HS for newcomers, to understand what it means to educate immigrant students in Trump’s second term.
Proud to share the 1st of 2 stories about ELLIS, Bridget, an undocumented teen, & the fight to keep her education alive.
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
Proud to share the 1st of 2 stories about ELLIS, Bridget, an undocumented teen, & the fight to keep her education alive.
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
‘They’ve given her a lot of hope’: A NYC school fights to educate an undocumented teen under Trump
For Bridget and Marta, ELLIS Prep often felt like the only public institution with its arms open in a city and country that seemed not to want them.
www.chalkbeat.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Here is your must edu-read of the day; terrific embedded reporting on the fear and stress our immigrant neighbors and their children are experiencing and the heroes trying to steer them through it
Reposted by Carrie Melago
“Be humble, love your sisters, keep moving forward. Don’t be like me and be nothing, and have to collect bottles.” www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025... via @chalkbeat.org
‘They’ve given her a lot of hope’: A NYC school fights to educate an undocumented teen under Trump
For Bridget and Marta, ELLIS Prep often felt like the only public institution with its arms open in a city and country that seemed not to want them.
www.chalkbeat.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“Be humble, love your sisters, keep moving forward. Don’t be like me and be nothing, and have to collect bottles.” www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025... via @chalkbeat.org
Reposted by Carrie Melago
For 6 months, I’ve followed ELLIS, a Bronx HS for newcomers, to understand what it means to educate immigrant students in Trump’s second term.
Proud to share the 1st of 2 stories about ELLIS, Bridget, an undocumented teen, & the fight to keep her education alive.
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
Proud to share the 1st of 2 stories about ELLIS, Bridget, an undocumented teen, & the fight to keep her education alive.
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
‘They’ve given her a lot of hope’: A NYC school fights to educate an undocumented teen under Trump
For Bridget and Marta, ELLIS Prep often felt like the only public institution with its arms open in a city and country that seemed not to want them.
www.chalkbeat.org
August 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
For 6 months, I’ve followed ELLIS, a Bronx HS for newcomers, to understand what it means to educate immigrant students in Trump’s second term.
Proud to share the 1st of 2 stories about ELLIS, Bridget, an undocumented teen, & the fight to keep her education alive.
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
Proud to share the 1st of 2 stories about ELLIS, Bridget, an undocumented teen, & the fight to keep her education alive.
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
“It’s not going to be my fault that her dream dies." @MichaelElsenRoo spent months with an undocumented NYC student and the school fighting to keep her education hopes alive www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
‘They’ve given her a lot of hope’: A NYC school fights to educate an undocumented teen under Trump
For Bridget and Marta, ELLIS Prep often felt like the only public institution with its arms open in a city and country that seemed not to want them.
www.chalkbeat.org
August 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“It’s not going to be my fault that her dream dies." @MichaelElsenRoo spent months with an undocumented NYC student and the school fighting to keep her education hopes alive www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...