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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Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg has a proposal to help Jefferson County Public Schools solve a transportation crisis: send them the TARC drivers the transit system is planning to lay off.
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As teachers leave Kentucky classrooms at an alarming rate, the GOP-led Legislature is hoping to entice more people into the profession with loan forgiveness and student stipends.
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In a split vote, the Jefferson County Board of Education voted to cut transportation to all magnet and traditional schools except four majority-Black magnets.
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The Louisville NAACP is calling for the resignation or dismissal of Jefferson County Public Schools Superintendent Marty Pollio over his handling of the transportation crisis.
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Jefferson County Public Schools’ chief equity officer is concerned that the board is voting on possible cuts to magnet transportation before putting the plan through another racial fairness test, which was scheduled for Thursday.
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Three members of the Jefferson County Board of Education have called a special meeting for Wednesday to vote on a transportation plan for next year, which may include cuts to magnet transportation.
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AlphaRoute’s CEO says some findings are untrue in the scathing audit of its transportation plan for Jefferson County Public Schools. A JCPS official has accused the auditor of grandstanding.
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The Jefferson County Board of Education voted to delay a decision on whether to cut transportation for thousands of magnet and traditional school students next year.
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Public K-12 schools in Kentucky could hire pastoral counselors to provide mental health services under an amended school safety bill.
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A third-party audit of the Aug. 9 transportation debacle details multi-department failures and workplace culture problems in Jefferson County Public Schools’ central office.