• A newly uncovered 2009 memo links 191 teachers in 70 D.C. schools to possible cheating on standardized tests.

• Workers are becoming casualties of the construction boom in Texas.

• Debtor’s prisons were abolished in the 1830s, but they’re making a comeback.

• The winners of the coveted IRE Awards from Investigative Reporters and Editors have been announced.

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