Presented By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Failure Factories: When Education Policies Desert Our Children
The Livingston Lectures
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Livingston Award winning journalists and education policy experts discuss "Failure Factories," the Tampa Bay Times investigation of what happened after the Pinellas County School Board abandoned integration in favor of a neighborhood school system, and the policy changes prompted by the reports.
About the Article:
On Dec. 18, 2007, the Pinellas County School Board abandoned integration. They justified the vote with bold promises: Schools in poor, black neighborhoods would get more money, more staff, more resources. They delivered none of that.
This is the story of how district leaders turned five once-average schools into Failure Factories.
About the Journalists:
Lisa Gartner is a writer on the enterprise team at the Tampa Bay Times. In 2016, she and Times reporters Cara Fitzpatrick and Michael LaForgia won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for "Failure Factories." The series also won the Livingston Award, the Polk Award for Education Reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal, among other honors. Gartner joined the Times in 2013. She grew up in Wellington, Florida, and attended Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. After graduating in 2010, she joined The Washington Examiner to report on education in the D.C. metro area. At the Times, Gartner covered Pinellas County Schools and higher education before joining the enterprise team in 2016.
Michael LaForgia is investigations editor at the Tampa Bay Times. He is a Livingston Award winner and has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting - in 2014 for exposing problems in a Hillsborough County homeless program and in 2016 for the "Failure Factories" series. He joined the Times in 2012.
Nathaniel Lash joined the Tampa Bay Times in 2015 as an intern and became a data reporter. He was a fellow at The Center for Investigative Reporting, an intern at Newsday and a news applications developer at The Wall Street Journal. A Livingston Award winner, Lash graduated from the University of Urbana-Champaign with a degree in news-editorial journalism.
About the policy expert
Tabbye M. Chavous is the director of the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) and a Professor of Education and Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Her expertise and research activities include social identity development among Black adolescents and young adults; and diversity and multicultural climates in secondary and higher education settings and implications for students' academic, social, and psychological adjustment.
About the moderator
Brian Jacob is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, professor of economics, co-director of the Education Policy Initiative and Youth Policy Lab, and director of the Ford School’s doctoral program. His research focuses on urban school reform, virtual schooling and teacher labor markets; other recent work examines school choice, education accountability programs, and housing vouchers. He leads ongoing research collaborations with policymakers and practitioners, including State of Michigan Department of Education, DC Public Schools and Miami-Dade Public Schools. Jacob was a school teacher before his graduate studies. Jacob holds a PhD in Public Policy from the University of Chicago and an AB magna cum laude in Social Studies from Harvard University.
About the Livingston Awards:
The Livingston Awards for Young Journalists at the University of Michigan are the most prestigious honor for professional journalists under the age of 35. Livingston judges, drawn from the most accomplished figures in the profession, select winners in local, national and international reporting. Entries from print, broadcast and online journalism are judged against one another as technology blurs distinctions between platforms. The prizes are sponsored by the University of Michigan, the John S. and the Indian Trail Charitable Foundation. The Livingston Awards area program of Wallace House at the University of Michigan, home to the Knight-Wallace Fellowships for Journalists.
This event is co-sponsored by the Ford School the Education Policy Initiative and the School of Education.
2017 Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium event
This event will be live webstreamed. Please check back here just before the event for viewing details.
Livingston Award winning journalists and education policy experts discuss "Failure Factories," the Tampa Bay Times investigation of what happened after the Pinellas County School Board abandoned integration in favor of a neighborhood school system, and the policy changes prompted by the reports.
About the Article:
On Dec. 18, 2007, the Pinellas County School Board abandoned integration. They justified the vote with bold promises: Schools in poor, black neighborhoods would get more money, more staff, more resources. They delivered none of that.
This is the story of how district leaders turned five once-average schools into Failure Factories.
About the Journalists:
Lisa Gartner is a writer on the enterprise team at the Tampa Bay Times. In 2016, she and Times reporters Cara Fitzpatrick and Michael LaForgia won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for "Failure Factories." The series also won the Livingston Award, the Polk Award for Education Reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal, among other honors. Gartner joined the Times in 2013. She grew up in Wellington, Florida, and attended Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. After graduating in 2010, she joined The Washington Examiner to report on education in the D.C. metro area. At the Times, Gartner covered Pinellas County Schools and higher education before joining the enterprise team in 2016.
Michael LaForgia is investigations editor at the Tampa Bay Times. He is a Livingston Award winner and has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting - in 2014 for exposing problems in a Hillsborough County homeless program and in 2016 for the "Failure Factories" series. He joined the Times in 2012.
Nathaniel Lash joined the Tampa Bay Times in 2015 as an intern and became a data reporter. He was a fellow at The Center for Investigative Reporting, an intern at Newsday and a news applications developer at The Wall Street Journal. A Livingston Award winner, Lash graduated from the University of Urbana-Champaign with a degree in news-editorial journalism.
About the policy expert
Tabbye M. Chavous is the director of the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) and a Professor of Education and Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Her expertise and research activities include social identity development among Black adolescents and young adults; and diversity and multicultural climates in secondary and higher education settings and implications for students' academic, social, and psychological adjustment.
About the moderator
Brian Jacob is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, professor of economics, co-director of the Education Policy Initiative and Youth Policy Lab, and director of the Ford School’s doctoral program. His research focuses on urban school reform, virtual schooling and teacher labor markets; other recent work examines school choice, education accountability programs, and housing vouchers. He leads ongoing research collaborations with policymakers and practitioners, including State of Michigan Department of Education, DC Public Schools and Miami-Dade Public Schools. Jacob was a school teacher before his graduate studies. Jacob holds a PhD in Public Policy from the University of Chicago and an AB magna cum laude in Social Studies from Harvard University.
About the Livingston Awards:
The Livingston Awards for Young Journalists at the University of Michigan are the most prestigious honor for professional journalists under the age of 35. Livingston judges, drawn from the most accomplished figures in the profession, select winners in local, national and international reporting. Entries from print, broadcast and online journalism are judged against one another as technology blurs distinctions between platforms. The prizes are sponsored by the University of Michigan, the John S. and the Indian Trail Charitable Foundation. The Livingston Awards area program of Wallace House at the University of Michigan, home to the Knight-Wallace Fellowships for Journalists.
This event is co-sponsored by the Ford School the Education Policy Initiative and the School of Education.
2017 Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium event
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