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Public school enrollment in the U.S. slipping as alternatives gain political support
More and more, parents are opting America’s children out of public school. The share of children ages 5 to 17 enrolled in public schools fell by almost 4 percentage points from 2012 to 2022, an NBC News analysis of Census Bureau data found, even as the overall population grew.
Native Students In Valley Center Demand Action on Long-Standing Disparities
Native students within the Valley Center-Pauma School District are falling behind their peers.
SFPD releases body camera footage of deadly police shooting in Richmond District
The San Francisco Police Department released body camera footage Friday, showing the events leading up to a deadly police shooting in the city's Richmond District last week.
In a town hall meeting Friday, police said Officer Eduardo Villanueva from the Richmond district station shot and killed Marc Child, 37, on June 22 after receiving a 911 call that a man's son had killed his wife and dog in their house in the 700 block of 31st Avenue.
At the town hall, police described the events leading up
In a town hall meeting Friday, police said Officer Eduardo Villanueva from the Richmond district station shot and killed Marc Child, 37, on June 22 after receiving a 911 call that a man's son had killed his wife and dog in their house in the 700 block of 31st Avenue.
At the town hall, police described the events leading up
Cal Poly ROTC Chair goes to trial for invasion of privacy case
A judge has denied military diversion for the Cal Poly ROTC chair who used a hidden camera to film multiple women at the Recreation Center and in local fitting rooms.
The defense for Lt. Col. Jacob Sweatland, 40, requested the military diversion treatment program in an April court hearing, arguing that Sweatland’s mental health issues led him to film the women, Mustang News confirmed with SLO’s Chief Deputy District Attorney Jerret Gran.
The Military Diversion Program is an opportunity for vet
The defense for Lt. Col. Jacob Sweatland, 40, requested the military diversion treatment program in an April court hearing, arguing that Sweatland’s mental health issues led him to film the women, Mustang News confirmed with SLO’s Chief Deputy District Attorney Jerret Gran.
The Military Diversion Program is an opportunity for vet
Cal Poly is the only predominantly white CSU. Here’s why
A 2017 report from the California Faculty Association (CFA) union called “Equity, Interrupted: How California is Cheating Its Future” demonstrated how state funding for the CSU system decreased while diversity in the CSU student body increased simultaneously. As a result, increasingly expensive student fees disproportionately burden marginalized students — especially at Cal Poly.
“These problems exist throughout the CSU, but they are especially acute at Cal Poly,” CFA San Luis Obispo Chapter Pr
“These problems exist throughout the CSU, but they are especially acute at Cal Poly,” CFA San Luis Obispo Chapter Pr
Bay Area’s young voters are registering at lower rates. Organizers are combating this ahead of 2024 election
THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION produced some of the highest turnout of young voters and voters of color. Alex Lalama was among them.
A San Francisco State University student at the time, Lalama was one of many students becoming more politically involved, which Lalama attributes to the “era of Trumpism.” In fact, according to the Berkeley Institute for Young Americans, even though little is known about many of the factors influencing youth voter turnout, disapproval for Donald Trump was one that
A San Francisco State University student at the time, Lalama was one of many students becoming more politically involved, which Lalama attributes to the “era of Trumpism.” In fact, according to the Berkeley Institute for Young Americans, even though little is known about many of the factors influencing youth voter turnout, disapproval for Donald Trump was one that
Carlsbad Created a Police Engagement Commission, Spurning Advocate Calls for Oversight Role
Keyrollos Ibrahim still remembers his first encounter with Carlsbad police: an officer singled him out of a group and searched him for allegedly matching the description of a local drug dealer spotted in the area.
“Do you understand why I’m doing this?” Ibrahim recalls the officer asking him. Though he had done nothing wrong, he did understand.
Ibrahim, whose parents emigrated from Egypt, received “the police talk” from his dad like most young men of color, he said. Growing up in Carlsbad, he
“Do you understand why I’m doing this?” Ibrahim recalls the officer asking him. Though he had done nothing wrong, he did understand.
Ibrahim, whose parents emigrated from Egypt, received “the police talk” from his dad like most young men of color, he said. Growing up in Carlsbad, he
Video Reporting
One Year Later: Inside the People v. Flores Trial
Cal Poly freshman Kristin Smart was reported missing on May 26, 1996, after walking home from an off-campus party with Paul Flores, also a freshman at the time. She was legally declared dead in 2002, though her body has never been found. On Oct. 18, 2022, Paul Flores was found guilty for the first-degree murder of Kristin Smart, now facing 25 years to life in prison. His father, Ruben Flores was found not guilty.
In addition to co-producing and editing, I interviewed Chris Lambert, who was credited with reviving the case with his podcast, "Your Own Backyard."
Mayor of Kansas Avenue
I have covered housing and homelessness in San Luis Obispo County in many of my reporting classes. For my Web Audio and Video class, I created a short documentary for my final that was just one piece of many reporting projects I’ve done. I had built trust with both unhoused community members and county staff who allowed me to capture their experiences with one of the county’s newest plans to address homelessness: a Safe Parking site.
Data analysis & graphics
The Mexican state closest to Arizona bans most abortions, setting up a regional void
I created a first-of-its-kind map of abortion laws in each of the American and Mexican states along the border.
Map: The states in favor of daylight saving time all year long
In the past six years, 19 states have made efforts to move to year-round daylight saving time. So what’s in the way?
The housing market’s deep slump, in five charts
Home sales have dropped this year, as high prices, high borrowing costs and a low supply of available homes have combined to send potential buyers to the sidelines.
I analyzed data and created a map for an NBC Digital article on unequal access to weight loss drugs, which also aired on NBC Nightly News. The story and graphic received recognition from NBC editorial president Rebecca Blumenstein.
I made the below visualization as part of a group final project in my data journalism class in Spring 2022. With three other students, I created a data-driven story on a webpage (view here), exploring school shootings in the US and gun laws. I cleaned and analyzed more than 2,000 rows of data from the Center for Homeland Defense and Security to review school shooting incidents since 1970, clarifying our parameters for what constitutes a school shooting, as some incidents in the database would not be included.
As a Dow Jones News Fund data intern at Bay City News, I wrote an article and visualized data from a scientific study showing how rising groundwater levels would cause contaminants from more than 5,000 toxic sites to spread into neighborhoods, hurting both infrastructure and health. This map is one of the graphics I made for this story.