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Jo Napolitano
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Senior Reporter, The 74
New York
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Biography
Jo Napolitano is a special writer for Newsday covering public education and climate change in a post Sandy world. She spent nearly five years as a staff reporter for the Chicago Tribune, covering crime, education and breaking news, writing about everything from school shootings to Ponzi schemes to the shame surrounding two jailed governors. Her coverage of two high-profile missing women led to several appearances on MSNBC, FOX and CNN. Before joining the Tribune in 2004, Napolitano spent more than two years at The New York Times’ Chicago Bureau, where she chronicled a soon-to-be incarcerated governor’s dismantling of the death penalty while penning numerous features for the culture, sports and business sections of the paper. Recognized for her sensitivity to victims, she has often been called upon to handle the most delicate of cases, writing extensively about families who lost soldiers to war, children to street crime and mothers to domestic violence. Napolitano, hired by Newsday in 2010 to write about education policy, was recently asked to take on a new beat focusing on climate change and infrastructure. She’s spent the past several months meeting with some of the world’s leading climate experts to learn about mitigation and adaptation efforts around the globe. Napolitano is a native New Yorker who lives in Brooklyn.
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Content
By Jo Napolitano| Yahoo Verified As the nation’s school children struggle to make gains in mathematics — and continue to fall short of pre-pandemic achievement levels — a new Gallup poll reveals a related challenge: schools’ difficulty in hiring well-qualified math teachers. Nearly half of 1,471 education leaders who responded to the analytics company’s December query reported that the task was “very challenging” and far worse than finding strong English language or social studies applicants.
By Jo Napolitano| The Franklin News-Post Verified By Jo Napolitano for The 74 The 74 reports on how immigrant students fleeing ICE raids are given books, cards, signed T-shirts and soccer balls to remember their teachers, classmates and the life they leave behind. As immigrant students flee in fear of ICE raids, teachers offer heartfelt gifts
By Jo Napolitano| Yahoo Verified As the nation’s school children struggle to make gains in mathematics — and continue to fall short of pre-pandemic achievement levels — a new Gallup poll reveals a related challenge: schools’ difficulty in hiring well-qualified math teachers. Nearly half of 1,471 education leaders who responded to the analytics company’s December query reported that the task was “very challenging” and far worse than finding strong English language or social studies applicants.
Company Info
The 74
The 74 Media is a nonprofit news organization focused on covering the U.S. education system from early childhood through college and career. Founded in July 2015 by Campbell Brown and Romy Drucker, it aims to address key issues in education, including teacher quality and educational options for families. The organization is named after the estimated 74 million American schoolchildren enrolled in K-12 education at its inception. The 74 Media provides comprehensive news and investigative reporting, expert opinion and commentary, and video and multimedia journalism. Its reporting highlights the voices of teachers, innovators, researchers, school leaders, and policymakers. The organization also operates LA School Report and LA School Report en Español, which focus on local education issues in Los Angeles. Through its work, The 74 Media seeks to foster an informed dialogue about improving education and addressing systemic challenges within the system.
New York, United States
+1 727-623-0934
Founded: 2015