Jess Clark
Education and Learning ReporterJess is LPM's Education and Learning Reporter. Jess has reported on K-12 education for public radio audiences for the past five years, from the swamps of Southeast Louisiana at WWNO, New Orleans Public Radio, to the mountains of North Carolina at WUNC in Chapel Hill. Her stories have aired on national programs and podcasts, including NPR's All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition, Here & Now and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. A Louisville native, Jess has her bachelor's degree from Centre College, and her masters in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Email Jess at jclark@lpm.org.
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A measure that would bring partisan politics to the Kentucky Board of Education has advanced in the state Senate.
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A measure that cleared the House Education Committee Tuesday would send Kentucky parents and guardians to court after their child has 15 unexcused absences from elementary school.
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A proposed update to Kentucky’s School Safety Act would allow armed veterans and retired police to patrol schools.
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The tech company Evolv announced it is the subject of an inquiry by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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In his annual state of the district address, a prickly JCPS Superintendent Marty Pollio touted recent changes as successes, and fended off criticism.
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House lawmakers want to give Kentucky student teachers a small stipend and join a handful of other states that pay teacher interns.
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Freedom of information advocates say proposed changes to Kentucky’s open records law under House Bill 509 are an “all-out assault on transparency.”
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Kentucky House lawmakers passed a new version of a measure to speed up investigations into educator wrongdoing Wednesday.
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Top staff in Jefferson County Public Schools say the only solution to the district’s busing predicament is to stop transporting all 16,000 magnet and traditional students. Some community members disagree.
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As promised, a group of state GOP lawmakers filed a resolution to create a task force on JCPS. Its main area of study: what it would look like to break up the district of 95,000 students.