I have highlighted many of the stories and series that our team and our partners have worked on in the last few months, but there is a lot more available than I've been able to share in this newsletter. I invite you to visit our project page, where you can find everything from a series on environmental justice or college diversity to our civic engagement project and a bilingual initiative highlighting Latino restaurant owners in our state.
Last weekend, we launched our Education and Equity series, which will shine a light on some of the biggest issues facing education in our state. Over the next few months, the Collaborative and our partners will examine, in depth, what is working and what could be improved in New Hampshire schools and classrooms. Among the topics we'll investigate are school leveling practices that can lead to inequity, the impact of the new education savings accounts, and how English as a Second Language programs are approached in different districts. And we're doing this reporting in partnership with you.
This month we released our Environmental Justice Series. The project explores the intersection of ethical, political and social issues with climate change. The first story in the series, Burdens of Heat, looks at heat-related illnesses and their effects on vulnerable communities. Upcoming topics include lead poisoning, air and water pollution, traffic, and access to healthy food.
This month, we released our College Diversity Series, which has been in the making since the beginning of the year. The Collaborative worked with our partners at the New Hampshire Press Association to develop teams of student journalists to explore issues of diversity on the state’s college campuses. Their reporting found that NH colleges have struggled to meet their own diversity goals, and they often face a tough sell in their bid for minority students.
The partners of the Collaborative have been closely covering the proposed policies in what began as House Bill 544 (the so-called "divisive concepts" bill). We'd like to hear from you about this initiative so we can directly respond to your questions and concerns with our coverage. Take this survey to tell us what you're curious about and how these policies could impact you.
The Granite State News Collaborative is a collective of more than 20 local media, education and community partners working together to produce and share news stories on the issues that most impact our state. The hope is that together we can provide more information to more communities across New Hampshire than we could individually.
Good morning, and welcome to the second installment of This is New Hampshire, the Collaborative's newest newsletter. Last month, we announced the launch of our multiyear reporting project focused on race and equity in the state. This month, I want to highlight some of the great work our reporters and partners have done around this project in the last few weeks.
We'll be pooling our resources from the Collaborative's nearly 20 statewide media and community partners to examine a multitude of issues facing people of color in New Hampshire, from economic opportunity to health equity to criminal justice. Looking at possible solutions and examining whether they could work in our communities will be central to our reporting. We'll focus on the people, the policies and the data. And most of all, we'll make sure people of color will be telling their own story.
