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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The Durham Board of Education has changed district policy to buffer schools from immigration and law enforcement.The board changed policy last week after…
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It's being called a political crisis: Partisanship is the worst it's been in decades. Now, a few North Carolina legislators think they might have a…
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There could be term limits for the leaders of the state House and Senate under a bill moving through the legislature.The bill could limit terms for the…
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Coming off a week that included a gun bill, an energy bill, and a re-mapping session, this week is likely to be a bit quitter on Jones Street.That could…
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The House passed a controversial gun bill this week, but it's not clear the measure has enough support to become law.The measure would do away with the…
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Republican legislators in North Carolina have refused to hold a special session demanded by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper to redraw General Assembly…
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A number of racially charged incidents in Wake County Schools has prompted the district to bring together principals to talk about race.Next week, Wake…
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The state House passed its budget just after midnight last night. The House plan would cut taxes, fund pay increases for some teachers, and give an…
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Now that the state House has released its plan for teacher pay, there are three plans before lawmakers as they continue budget negotiations. Here are the…
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Republican House budget committee members made it clear Thursday that they disagree with several spending cuts and policy provisions the Senate GOP…