Jennifer Guerra
Senior ProducerJennifer is a reporter for Michigan Radio's State of Opportunity project, which looks at kids from low-income families and what it takes to get them ahead. She previously covered arts and culture for the station, and was one of the lead reporters on the award-winning education series Rebuilding Detroit Schools. Prior to working at Michigan Radio, Jennifer lived in New York where she was a producer at WFUV, an NPR station in the Bronx.
Her stories and documentaries have won numerous regional and national awards, and her work has aired on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Marketplace and Studio 360.
Jennifer graduated from the University of Michigan and received her M.A. in broadcast journalism from Fordham University. When she's not on the radio, she and her husband are making up lyrics to songs and singing them to their adorable baby girl.
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Malissa Clair, Lamphere Public Schools. Both she and her husband are essential workers for Consumers Energy. Before the pandemic, they both worked during…
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We have an update on the efforts to get Detroit area charter school employees paid for time worked during the school year.Many employees at Michigan…
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Detroit public school students could soon be spending a lot less time on testing during the school year.The Detroit Public Schools Community District is…
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We reported last week that a Detroit area charter school used state money to pay its bondholders instead of its teachers.Many employees at Michigan…
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More than 460 Michigan college students who say they have been defrauded by their for-profit schools filed federal claims this year to try to get their…
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Detroit's public school teachers have approved a three-year contract that includes a roughly 7 percent wage increase over the next two years.The contract…
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Charter school employees at Michigan Technical Academy in metro Detroit are not getting paid for time they worked in the classroom.The charter school’s…
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Nearly every school district in the nation uses the same type of salary schedule to pay its teachers -- a schedule with "steps" and "lanes" that pays…
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Our first post in this series looked at the state's "average salary" for teachers and how that number can be misleading since it doesn't account for years…
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We put out a non-scientific survey earlier this summer asking teachers in the state how they've seen their pay change over the past several years. (You…