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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Third-graders usually can’t be counted on to remember important dates, other than their birthday. But third-grader Antonio knows the exact dates of his…
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In June, a panel of North Carolina judges will hear a case that pits Republican against Republican in a power struggle over who should steer the…
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State Superintendent Mark Johnson's first months leading North Carolina Public Schools has been marked by a legal battle over just how much power his…
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A new audit of Bertie County Schools reveals a system deficit of more than $700,000, mismanagement of school funding, and potential violations of state…
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The General Assembly has completed the override of the governor's veto of a measure reducing the state Court of Appeals from 15 judges to 12.The Senate…
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Updated 11:50 a.m., 4/28/2017Thursday's crossover deadline came and went with a bang. Debate got heated when House Minority Leader Darren Jackson (D-Wake)…
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Since at least the 1990s, partisan politics haven’t had a place in most school board races in North Carolina. Historically, just a small minority of…
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Legislators will meet next week to consider bills that would strip local school boards' of their right to sue county commissioners for more education…
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North Carolina's school calendar law can be a nightmare for school systems to navigate. Take it from Anthony Jackson, Superintendent for Vance County…
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The use of corporal punishment is on the decline, but at one high school in N.C., the principal paddles his students himself.