Jessica Calefati
@Calefati
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Education investigative reporter for The Baltimore Banner. Politico, Inquirer, CalMatters, Mercury News, Star-Ledger alum. Proud NJ native. Yoga teacher.
Baltimore, MD
Joined June 2009
Government without newspapers or newspapers without government? I should not hesitate a moment to choose the latter.
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RT @peterbakernyt: A sad day for @washingtonpost readers as the standalone Metro section in print is eliminated and folded behind Style. As….
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RT @Invisibae: NEW: Baltimore students told about their experiences with violence and harassment on the way to school in the state's only d….
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RT @LeeOSanderlin: NEW w/ Giacomo Bologna: State Sen. Cory McCray helped controversial developer Ronald Lipscomb secure state money for a d….
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Sen. Cory McCray’s involvement in Ronald Lipscomb’s proposed apartment building raised alarms, ethical concerns, emails show.
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This nuanced local investigation begins with a simple, alarming fact: DCPS truancy rates for middle schoolers soared over the last decade. And the climb started *before* the pandemic. City leaders had so much time and so many chances to reverse this trend. And yet ….
New from @wpinvestigates:. We wanted to understand why youth crime shot up so stunningly in D.C. in 2023. Today, we published a multi-part investigation into the city's failure to both prevent and address the epidemic. Each part threaded here. Thank you for reading! 1/x
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RT @AlecMacGillis: Baltimore committed $3 million to revamp its unwieldy building permit system. The new system is even worse, so much so t….
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Alarming.
So stark: "Across Chicago, nearly 25,000 high school students — or a quarter of all high schoolers — missed at least 35 days last year. That’s double the number who missed that much in 2019.And yet, the graduation rate has continued to inch up — from 81% in 2019 to 85% in 2024."
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“Often, there’s a belief that a lack of language means a lack of intelligence, and that’s definitely not the case,” said Jacqueline Sanderson. I shadowed the Anne Arundel County Teacher of the Year at Belle Grove Elementary for @BaltimoreBanner .
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“There’s a belief that a lack of language means a lack of intelligence, and that’s definitely not the case,” said Jacqueline Sanderson.
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RT @Dylan_Segelbaum: For Anne Arundel’s top teacher, immigrant students are assets, not burdens, @Calefati reports: .
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“There’s a belief that a lack of language means a lack of intelligence, and that’s definitely not the case,” said Jacqueline Sanderson.
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RT @kris10griffith: Meet the youngest Marylander competing in this year's @ScrippsBee! And check out the incredible photos taken by @JessMG….
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RT @brianstelter: NBC's @miketirico with all the right words at the end of the Preakness: "After being defeated" at the Derby, Journalism p….
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RT @Juliemore: 💪 Tonight is Gunz of Steel, an arm-wrestling competition for women and non-binary people where you could get hit by a flying….
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A dozen costumed participants, many joined by a costumed manager, will lock arms across Stellmon’s custom-built arm wrestling table for four rounds of competition at Gunz of Steel.
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RT @BaltimoreBanner: If you want to bet on journalism in Baltimore, you don't have to wait for a horse to run the Preakness. Support our….
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@KaitlinObscura The @BaltimoreBanner was just a few months old when reporting on this story began. Thank you @richardmar10 @kyoshino @ashleypowers for trusting us to pursue it and helping us tell it the right way. Find all the stories and the continuing coverage here.
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An investigation by The Baltimore Banner on the secret history of abuse and sexual misconduct allegations at Greater Grace World Outreach churches.
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The project’s visuals were distinctive, including illustrations. We have @KaitlinObscura to thank for her portraits and her work coordinating freelancers in six different time zones. We saw the portraits again in the hands of protestors seeking justice.
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Many former members of Greater Grace World Outreach flocked to the East Baltimore church Friday evening to protest leaders’ handling of allegations of child sex abuse — the subject of a Baltimore...
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This church taught our sources that criticizing the organization or its leaders was a deadly sin. I’m in awe of the courage they demonstrated when they decided to tell their stories. They risked so much in hopes of change that is finally starting to come
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The Banner exposed the pastors’ misconduct in a series last year about decades of child sexual abuse and coverup within the evangelical church.
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Tremendously proud to see our @BaltimoreBanner investigation exposing decades of child sexual abuse and coverup at Baltimore’s Greater Grace church honored with a Dart Award. Reported and written with colleagues @Juliemore @justin_fenton
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RT @ChrisMegerian: Exciting news for the @BaltimoreBanner — @Calefati @Juliemore and @justin_fenton have received a Dart Award for their in….
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RT @kyoshino: Never in my wildest dreams did I think we’d be here today, three years in, winning a Pulitzer. My heart is full today. I am s….
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The Baltimore Banner was awarded the Pulitzer Prize on Monday for groundbreaking local journalism that exposed Baltimore as the deadliest large city in the nation for drug overdoses.
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