In this week’s edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: The TWDB reviews its challenges and accomplishments in 2016, a Travis County utility deals with the aftermath of its contamination of a nature preserve and an interview with L’Oreal Stepney of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
John Reynolds
John Reynolds was the newsletters editor for the Tribune from 2013 to 2017. Prior to that, he was a reporter for Quorum Report, a non-partisan online political newsletter focusing on the ins and outs under the Dome, for more than seven years – covering the waterfront from health and human services and redistricting to pensions and elections. A native of Atlanta, Ga., he started his journalistic career one day after the attacks of Sept. 11 in Lubbock, Texas, where he rotated through a slew of beats at The Avalanche-Journal. He received his undergraduate degree from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and studied at the University of Georgia's graduate school in journalism. When not at work, he actively attempts to convince himself he is adept at tennis with varying levels of success. And he has adopted the Austin custom of appreciating smoked meats and listening to music in grassy/muddy fields.
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The Bookshelf: Jan. 11, 2017
In this week’s Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights The Death and Life of the Great Lakes.
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New in Trib+Edu: Summing up 2016 in education news
In this week’s edition of the Trib+Edu newsletter: 2016 was an eventful year for education in the state and in the nation, a push to redress gender gap among school superintendents and a San Diego school is in the spotlight for punishing students with “planking.”
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Arizona voters support increased education spending
A new poll found that a majority of Arizona voters think the state should spend more money on education, with more than half saying they’d pay higher taxes to do so.
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Summing up the year 2016 in public education
The general state of public education in the United States can be summed up in five statistics, according to a recent explainer in The Atlantic.
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The Bookshelf: Jan. 5, 2017
In this week’s Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Troublemakers.
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San Diego school’s use of “planking” to discipline draws fire
The San Diego school district is defending the use of “planking” and other physical exercise to cut down on student misbehavior as falling within its discipline policies.
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Economists split on Trump’s privatizing education agenda
Privatizing education, whether it be college lending or private school vouchers, is likely to be on the agenda during the soon-to-be Trump Administration.
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More woman superintendents, but numbers still lag
According to federal data and findings from a recent national survey, women account for less than a quarter of all superintendents in the nation’s nearly 14,000 school districts.
