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Carolyn Jones, CalMatters

Carolyn Jones covers K-12 education at CalMatters. A longtime news reporter, she’s covered education for nearly a decade, focusing on everything from special education to state funding policies to inequities in student achievement. She’s won numerous awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association, and was a finalist in 2020 for beat reporter of the year (small newsroom) by the Education Writers Association. In 2023, she spent five weeks in Albania as a Fulbright Specialist working on media literacy and promoting a free press. At CalMatters, she’s written about how culture wars play out in schools, the challenges facing Native American students, lack of funds for rural school repair, the revolution in school meals and other topics.

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California Spent Nearly $1 Billion To Boost Arts Education. How Are Schools Spending It?
Proposition 28 allocated nearly $1 billion in new arts education funding to California schools. But a coalition of nearly 100 arts groups says that some school districts may be misspending the money, deepening longstanding inequities among students.
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