Jess Clark
Jess Clark is WWNO's Education Desk reporter. Jess comes to the station after two years as Fletcher Fellow for Education Policy Reporting for (Chapel Hill). Her reporting has aired on national programs, including NPR's All Things Considered, Here & Now from WBUR, and NPR's Weekend Edition.
Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, Jess graduated from the in 2015 with a master's in Journalism and Mass Communication.
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The "Nation's Report Card," or the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), shows Louisiana students are performing better in math and...
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On the ballot for parts of East Baton Rouge Parish, there’s a measure to create a new city: The City of St. George. It’s the first step to carving out a...
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Top male professors at Tulane University School of Medicine created a "long-standing hostile and discriminatory work environment" for the women...
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NOLA Public Schools doesn't actually run any schools. What the district does do is decide each year which schools to grant new charters to and when to take them away.
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The Louisiana Department of Education has just released a report on how quickly students are improving academically from year to year. It shows that,...
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Last update 10:00 a.m., July 15, 2019 Heavy rain bands from Tropical Depression Barry will continue to affect the southern Louisiana region throughout...
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Last update 5:15 p.m., July 12, 2019 Governor John Bel Edwards is urging residents to be ready to ride out Tropical Storm Barry by Friday evening, ahead...
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Last Update 5:00 p.m., July 11, 2019 The latest forecasts have Tropical Storm Barry making landfall no longer as a hurricane, but as a tropical storm,...
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Politicians promised the Louisiana Scholarship Program would offer low-income students a way out of bad public schools. Instead, the program steered...
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Participating in the state’s school voucher program leads to worse performance on state tests in math, according to the latest study on the Louisiana...