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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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Parents and supporters protest school mask mandates in front of San Marcos High School in San Marcos on Feb. 22, 2022. Photo by Eduardo Contreras, The San Diego Union-Tribune
Kindergarteners wear masks while listening to their teacher amid the COVID-19 pandemic at Washington Elementary School in Lynwood on Jan. 12, 2022. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
Ariel Garcia, 5, receives a COVID-19 vaccination at the La Clinica de la Raza community vaccination site in Oakland on Jan. 4, 2022. Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters
Fremont Unified School District Superintendent CJ Cammack visits with a fourth grade class at E. M. Grimmer Elementary School in Fremont on Sept. 30, 2021. Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group
A new classroom at Burnt Ranch Elementary School in Trinity County on Dec. 13, 2019. Photo by Dave Woody for CalMatters

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