Ann Dornfeld
Reporter
About
Ann is a reporter on KUOW's Investigations team. Previously, she covered education stories for KUOW for a decade, with a focus on investigations into racial and socioeconomic inequities.
Her ongoing series exposing Seattle Public Schools’ lenient discipline of staff who abused students has won investigative reporting awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Radio Television Digital News Association, and the Education Writers Association. She was also lauded for her years of work covering disparities in the amount of recess and P.E. time students received in low-income schools.
Previously, Ann worked at Alaska Public Radio Network in Anchorage, and KLCC in Eugene, Oregon. Her freelance work, focusing on science and environmental issues, has appeared on national outlets including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Marketplace and The World.
Ann’s marine and underwater photography has appeared in the American Museum of Natural History and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.
She lives with her husband and two children in South Seattle.
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English
Pronouns: she/her
Professional Affiliations: Member, Investigative Reporters and Editors
Stories
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Education
Seattle Public Schools approves contentious Amplify Science curriculum
The Seattle School Board has voted to adopt a controversial new elementary and middle school science curriculum.
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Education
Here's what Seattle parents and teachers are saying about Seattle's proposed science curriculum
Seattle parents and teachers have differing feedback on AmplifyScience, Seattle Public Schools proposed science curriculum.
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Education
Kent school principals lambast district leadership in letter to school board
School principals in Kent are calling out the superintendent and other district officials for poor leadership. In a scathing letter to the school board, the Kent Principals Association said district executives regularly undermine, ignore or fail to communicate with principals.
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Health
Unvaccinated students and staff barred from two Seattle-area schools after new measles cases
After a staff member at Issaquah High School and a student at North Creek High School in Bothell were diagnosed with measles, Public Health Seattle-King County and Snohomish Health District told the schools to keep out any unimmunized students and staff for at least three weeks.
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Education
'All I'm getting is the bare minimum.' Rainier Beach High School students protest budget cuts
Students and teachers at Rainier Beach High School say the cuts at their school will hamper students’ college plans. Dozens of students and staff gathered in front of the school Wednesday to protest cuts they say are unfair and inequitable.
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Education
'A shady mess': Seattle Schools debates proposed science curriculum
Simon Harrington, a 7th grader at Jane Addams Middle School in Seattle, loves science - just not the new science curriculum his school introduced last year. "We sat down at computers, watched the video, and for the rest of the day did a lesson," he said. "We were basically bored by it."
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Education
Faced with huge budget cuts, many school districts hope for relief from Olympia
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Education
The end of the pipeline. Seattle teachers go to prison to get schooled
Every month, a Seattle high school principal brings a group of fellow educators to a nearby prison. It’s an effort to address the so-called “school-to-prison pipeline.”
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Crime
What's this police watchtower doing at a Seattle Safeway?
Does this surveillance unit serve more to deter crime - or to make citizens feel like they're living in a police state?
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Education
Parents charge Kent Schools superintendent, board with financial mismanagement
Two parents in the Kent School District are asking a judge to examine how the superintendent and school board have been handling district finances.