Jess Clark
Fletcher Fellow for Education Policy ReportingJess is WUNC's Fletcher Fellow for Education Policy Reporting. Her reporting focuses on how decisions made at the North Carolina General Assembly affect the state's students, families, teachers and communities.
Jess graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2015 with her master's in Journalism and Mass Communication. As a graduate student she was lead writer and managing editor for WholeHogNC.org, a special multimedia report on North Carolina’s hog industry from UNC’s award-winning series, "Powering A Nation." Her broadcast experience comes from working as a reporter and producer for Carolina Connection, a student-produced radio newscast from UNC's School of Journalism and Media, where her work received multiple national awards. She has also interned with the production team for WUNC's "The State of Things" and reported for WCHL on local schools and state policy, among other issues.
When she's not reporting, Jess is singing second soprano in the Choral Society of Durham, searching for taco trucks or dreaming of her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.
Jess left WUNC in July 2017.
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Durham Charter School Kestrel Heights has lost its appeal to keep running its high school.The state Board of Education voted Thursday to uphold an earlier…
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Public-school officials are panicking ahead of state-mandated class-size reductions in kindergarten through third grade. School systems say lawmakers gave…
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Second of two stories. Click here for the first.North Carolina is one of just two states that automatically charges 16- and 17-year-olds as adults in the…
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First of two stories. Click here for the second.When you turn 16 in North Carolina, you still can't vote, or drive on your own at night. You can't buy…
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At the heart of the HB2 court case is the question of which bathroom and locker room transgender students are allowed to use in public schools. For one of…
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President Donald Trump’s new rules on immigration enforcement have undocumented immigrants on edge.Trump expanded the priority targets for deportation to…
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State Board of Education members voted Thursday to revoke Kestrel Heights Charter School's right to serve high school students. The Durham K-12 charter…
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Corporal punishment is still a legal practice in North Carolina schools. But today there are just two districts in the state where educators still inflict…
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Legislators filed dozens of bills on the first day back since session officially opened, including a proposal to develop a plan to change how the state…
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Legislators filed dozens of bills on the first day back since session officially opened, including a proposal to develop a plan to change how the state…