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Joe Hong

K-12 Education Reporter

Joe reports on the students, teachers and lawmakers who shape California's public schools. Before joining CalMatters in 2021, he was the education reporter at KPBS, the public radio station in San Diego. Previously, he reported on education in the Coachella Valley for The Desert Sun, a daily newspaper in Palm Springs. He's a proud graduate of California's public schools.

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Patricia Wallinga, a substitute teacher in San Francisco, is photographed at AP Gianni Middle School on April 22, 2022. Photo by Martin do Nascimento, CalMatters
Students in an AP English Literature + Composition class at Nevada Union High School in Grass Valley on March 1, 2022. Photo by Salgu Wissmath for CalMatters
Joy Harrison instructs her second graders as California Gov. Gavin Newsom visits the classroom at Carl B. Munck Elementary School, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, in Oakland. The governor announced that California will require its 320,000 teachers and school employees to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus or submit to weekly COVID-19 testing. Photo by Santiago Mejia, San Francisco Chronicle via AP
Students at Piner High School complete a class assignment on Aug. 14, 2019. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters
LAUSD Board Member Tanya Ortiz Franklin helps students on the first day back at school for LAUSD students following the COVID-19 remote school period in Los Angeles on Aug. 16, 2021. Photo by Lucy Nicholson, Reuters

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