Jessica Bakeman
Jessica Bakeman reports on K-12 and higher education for WLRN, south Florida's NPR affiliate. While new to Miami and public radio, Jessica is a seasoned journalist who has covered education policymaking and politics in three state capitals: Jackson, Miss.; Albany, N.Y.; and, most recently, Tallahassee.
Jessica first moved to the Sunshine State in 2015 to help launch POLITICO Florida as part of the company’s national expansion. She is the immediate past president of the Capitol Press Club of Florida, a nonprofit organization that raises money for college scholarships benefiting journalism students.
Jessica was an original member of POLITICO New York’s Albany bureau. Also in the Empire State, Jessica covered politics for The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. As part of Gannett’s three-person Albany bureau, she won the New York Publishers Association award for distinguished state government coverage in 2013 and 2014. Jessica twice chaired a planning committee for the Albany press corps’ annual political satire show, the oldest of its kind in the country.
She started her career at The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson. There she won the Louisiana/Mississippi Associated Press Managing Editors’ 2013 first place award for continuing coverage of former Gov. Haley Barbour’s decision to pardon more than 200 felons as he left office.
She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and English literature from SUNY Plattsburgh, a public liberal arts college in northeastern New York. She (proudly) hails from Rochester, N.Y.
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Many parents appear to be keeping their children out of public school, especially from kindergarten. The declines could mean less state funding for school districts. -
Teachers get money from the state to spend on their classrooms — but some pandemic must-haves are off limits.
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The university, following the lead of other schools, is skipping spring break to limit the risk that student travel would lead to a spike in COVID-19 transmission.
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Other states have taken similar action to help those who are transitioning out of state custody during the health crisis.
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The demands by student activists face what could be an insurmountable obstacle: security fears in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting.
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Subcontracted janitors at the University of Miami say they want gowns and hazmat suits to clean areas of the campus that are suspected to be contaminated with the coronavirus.
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The Florida Chamber Foundation hopes an interactive map will inspire business leaders to invest in areas where many children live in poverty and read below grade level.
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A combination of cyber attacks and software glitches have disturbed the first week of online classes for 275,000 students in district schools.
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A plan to improve how public schools in Miami-Dade County teach students about racism drew a racist backlash last week — a response that reflected a...
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Miami-Dade County Public Schools' chief academic officer is a top contender to be superintendent of the school district in Sarasota County. Marie...
