Ann Dornfeld
Reporter
About
Ann Dornfeld reports on issues of racial inequity for KUOW. She previously covered education for the station. Before that, Ann was a roving freelance public radio reporter, focusing on environmental issues, for KUOW and national shows including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, The Environment Report and Marketplace.
Ann has reported on a rare bioluminescent bay in Puerto Rico, penguin habitat loss in South Africa, mangrove destruction in the U.S. Virgin Islands, coral reef conservation in Bonaire and invasive lionfish in the Bahamas. She covered a major earthquake in Sumatra, Indonesia, for NPR News and The World. Ann also worked as a reporter and Morning Edition host at KLCC Public Radio in Eugene, Oregon, after internships at KUOW and Alaska Public Radio Network.
She got her start spinning hip-hop records at the radio station of Oregon State University, where she majored in biology and environmental sciences.
She has won awards for her reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists, The Associated Press and Public Radio News Directors Incorporated. Ann has also received both investigative and data reporting awards from the Education Writers Association for her coverage of ongoing recess cutbacks and physical education shortages in Seattle-area schools. Her photography has appeared in exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.
Stories
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Too white? A criticism of Seattle Public Schools gifted programs for decades
The disproportionate percentage of white students in gifted programs has become a hot topic in Seattle – and around the country – in recent years. But historical documents in the school district archives illustrate that this debate dates back generations in Seattle.
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Bad grades? Can’t dance at Mercer Middle School in Seattle
A dance at a Seattle middle school has drawn criticism for excluding some students. And it raises questions about approaches to school discipline.
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Affirmative action trails, but supporters still see positives
The affirmative action measure on Tuesday’s ballot was divisive in Asian-American communities. But some say the heated debate had a positive side.
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One-tenth of Seattle students could be kept home for missing vaccination records
Seattle Public Schools said it is missing immunization records for about one in ten students. The district sent letters to about 5,700 students’ families Oct. 28th notifying them that they will be barred from school beginning Jan. 8th if they still lack proof of the required immunizations, exemptions, or evidence that they are in the process of getting vaccinated.
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One in ten Seattle Public Schools students could be barred for lack of vaccination records
Seattle Public Schools said it is missing immunization records for about one in ten students. The district sent letters to about 5,700 students’ families Oct. 28th notifying them that they will be excluded from school beginning Jan. 8th if they still lack proof of the required immunizations, exemptions, or evidence that they are in the process of getting vaccinated.
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Recent test scores show widening performance gap in Seattle schools
Is the test part of the problem?
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Students and parents protest racial slurs at north Seattle school
Parents and students held a protest outside Hazel Wolf K-8 STEM School in north Seattle today calling on school leaders to do more to respond to students’ use of racial slurs.
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British family's illegal border crossing into Washington state was no accident, feds say
U-S Customs and Border Protection released surveillance video today that CBP said shows a British family of seven illegally crossing Oct. 3 from Canada into the U.S. at Lynden, Wash. The incident has gotten international attention because the Connors family said they’re just tourists who swerved to avoid an animal in the road – and unwittingly crossed the border.
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Do phones belong in the classroom? Seattle Public Schools weighs K-8 student cell phone ban
Now that most middle-school students have cell phones, some teachers are embracing the technology for schoolwork and to communicate with kids. Others say it's the
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Seattle Schools doesn’t know which students are unvaccinated
Measles outbreaks sickened dozens of Washington children this year, and today marks the legal cutoff for most Seattle Public Schools students to show proof of immunizations or exemptions – or be kept out of school.