Sandra Poindexter
As a Los Angeles Times data analyst, Sandra Poindexter crunched the numbers to provide information for daily stories as well as short- and long-term investigative projects. In 2011, she was part of a team that won the Nieman Foundation for Journalism’s Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting for the series “Billions to Spend,” which documented mismanagement in a multi-billion dollar program to rebuild Los Angeles’ community colleges. She also shared the 2010 Scripps Howard National Journalism Award for the public service series, “Grading The Teachers.” The series also won the 2010 Philip Meyer Journalism Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors. Poindexter left The Times in 2017.
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Incluso con una nueva ley que ha impulsado las tasas de vacunación de kindergarten a niveles récord, cientos de escuelas en todo California todavía reciben muchos niños que carecen de inmunización completa y que representan un mayor riesgo de brotes de enfermedades, de acuerdo con un análisis del Times de los datos del estado.
Cuando se develó el nuevo Tablero Escolar de California este miércoles, las autoridades estatales lo describieron como la forma más completa de evaluar a las escuelas públicas de California.
When they unveiled the California School Dashboard on Wednesday, state officials described it as the most comprehensive way yet to assess the state of California public schools.
El año pasado más de 3 millones de estudiantes en California cambiaron sus lápices por computadoras y tomaron las pruebas escolares estandarizadas.
With Sunday’s Oscar show, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will close one of the most contentious awards seasons in its history and open an era of historic change, as the 89-year-old institution launches an ambitious drive to diversify its membership.
To Omar Medina, a security officer working the graveyard shift, attending Northwestern California University School of Law seemed like the ideal way to fulfill his dream of becoming a lawyer.
En el área de Los Ángeles, el buscarle un poco puede producir enormes diferencias en el precio de una cirugía de remplazo de rodilla o de cadera.
A short drive in the Los Angeles area can yield big differences in price for knee or hip replacement surgery.