When the Clark County School District in Las Vegas announced it would be staying entirely remote this year, mother and education advocate Valeria Gurr was immediately concerned about how the decision would affect low-income and Spanish-speaking families, especially those with students who are English language learners. She worried that the district might fail to provide […]
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Javeria Salman is the digital news producer. Prior to joining The Hechinger Report, she worked as an editor and reporter at The East Carolinian, an independent college newspaper in eastern North Carolina, where she was recognized by the North Carolina College Media Association for her reporting and opinion writing. Javeria spent a decade working on various media teams and youth leadership programs with non-profit Muslim American organizations. She graduated from East Carolina University with a B.S. in communication and a concentration in journalism. Javeria has lived in three other countries, five U.S. states and too many cities to count, and grew up constantly on the move. When she's not traveling, she's either reading the news, listening to a podcast about news or nerding out over journalism history.
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