The San Antonio Report is doubling its native protection of schooling points by including its first-ever increased schooling reporter to the group.
Danya Pérez, a bicultural and bilingual reporter from El Paso, will be a part of the Report as its inaugural increased schooling reporter later this month.
Alongside Ok-12 schooling reporter Xochilt Garcia, whose impactful protection has served native readers properly since she joined the San Antonio Report newsroom in February, the addition of Pérez doubles our native newsroom’s potential to cowl the schooling points that matter most to San Antonio.
The brand new place was made potential by a grant from schooling reporting nonprofit Open Campus in addition to beneficiant assist from native donors, together with a two-week crowdfunding marketing campaign in fall 2024.
San Antonio is house to a various and dynamic increased schooling panorama, serving a scholar inhabitants exceeding 120,000 throughout private and non-private universities, in addition to a strong group faculty district.
The Report’s increased schooling beat will study the crucial position that increased ed performs within the life and well being of Bexar County, in addition to maintain establishments accountable with well-reported information protection.
The San Antonio Report’s increased schooling reporter joins a cohort of Open Campus reporters in associate newsrooms throughout the state, together with at The Texas Tribune, El Paso Issues and the Fort Price Report.
“As a neighborhood nonprofit information group, one in all our most vital challenges is delivering as a lot protection of important San Antonio tales as our group deserves with a small group,” San Antonio Report writer Angie Mock stated Friday. “This capacity-building position goes to be game-changing for our schooling protection.
“We couldn’t be extra grateful to Open Campus and the entire readers and native donors who contributed to our crowdfunding marketing campaign. Now, we’re thrilled to have the ability to ship on the promise of doubling our impression with extra schooling protection in San Antonio.”
In earlier roles, Pérez coated schooling for The Monitor newspaper within the Rio Grande Valley and on the San Antonio Specific-Information. Most just lately, she was a various communities reporter for the Houston Touchdown.
Garcia joined the Report from Texas A&M-San Antonio, the place she was the editor in chief of The Mesquite, a student-run information web site, and an intern on the Boerne Star.
Over the previous three months, Garcia has coated every part from college vouchers and belated college efficiency rankings to staffing shortages, together with the problem of retaining particular schooling academics and a state incentive program primarily based on “effectiveness.”
She’s additionally saved readers knowledgeable on all of the education-related races on the municipal election poll.
