Camellia Burris
Investigative Journalist at Miami Herald
Education reporter at @WPLN, Nashville’s @NPR station. Previously @MiamiHerald, @SFpublicpress.👩🏾🎓@SpelmanCollege, @columbiajourn, @tulanelaw
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2 weeks ago |
wpln.org | Camellia Burris
The recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Nashville have left many families afraid to leave the house for even basic necessities, like getting groceries or taking their kids to school. Teachers and advocates are warning that this could spark mental health issues for some students, especially in the face of family separation.
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2 weeks ago |
wpln.org | Camellia Burris
As efforts to shutter the U.S. Department of Education ramp up, advocates have grown increasingly concerned about how cases of discrimination in schools will be handled. They warn that Tennessee’s most vulnerable students will be the most impacted. The Office for Civil Rights is the Department of Education’s enforcement arm –investigating cases of students facing discrimination due to their race, disability, sex, religion and more. But investigations have slowed in recent months.
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3 weeks ago |
wkms.org | Camellia Burris
Families across Tennessee can now use public money for private school education. Applications for the state’s school voucher program opened Thursday. The controversial voucher program — called Education Freedom Scholarships — offers 20,000 vouchers to K-12 students for the upcoming school year. Half are reserved for low-income students, students with disabilities and those already eligible for the Education Savings Account program — the previous voucher pilot program.
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3 weeks ago |
wpln.org | Camellia Burris
Families across Tennessee can now use public money for private school education. Applications for the state’s school voucher program open today. The controversial voucher program — called Education Freedom Scholarships — offers 20,000 vouchers to K-12 students for the upcoming school year. Half are reserved for low-income students, students with disabilities and those already eligible for the Education Savings Account program — the previous voucher pilot program.
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3 weeks ago |
wkms.org | Camellia Burris
A state program aims to bring more school mental health professionals to Tennessee’s rural students. More than half of Tennessee’s 93 rural school districts don’t have a full-time psychologist or social worker. Project RAISE (Rural Access to Interventions in School Environments) is a state initiative that seeks to place at least one counselor, psychologist and social worker in every rural school district in the state.
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