Stories by Julianne Hing
Julianne Hing is a reporter and blogger for ColorLines.com covering immigration, education, criminal justice, and occasionally fashion and pop culture.
Posted on May 14, 2012, Source: Colorlines.com
Plans to dismantle Philadelphia's public education system have met with sharp criticism from parents, educators and education watchers nationwide.
Posted on Apr 24, 2012, Source: Colorlines.com
Bobby Jindal has transformed public education in Louisiana and education advocates have deep concerns about who's going to benefit.
Posted on Feb 28, 2012, Source: Colorlines.com
Parent Trigger Laws allow parents to overhaul schools with a majority vote. But do these laws benefit the people? Or the corporate interests driving the privatization of public ed?
Posted on Jan 9, 2012, Source: ColorLines
A three-year investigation found rampant racial profiling and widespread discriminatory policing in Arpaio's Arizona county.
Posted on Dec 4, 2011, Source: ColorLines
In the wake of the bruising defeat of the DREAM Act a year go, undocumented immigrant youth are fighting on the state level for access to education.
Posted on Nov 21, 2011, Source: ColorLines
When the cameras aren’t rolling and the nation’s not looking on, does the Obama administration abide by its own deportation policies?
Posted on Oct 20, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com
Rupert Murdoch's sudden interest in America's school system does not bode well.
Posted on Oct 19, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com
Three weeks after Alabama began enforcing its ultra-strict anti-immigrant law, the country is beginning to see what happens when states create their own immigration policies.
Posted on Oct 6, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com
Operation Desert Sky is an airborne version of Arizona's controversial crime sweeps.
Posted on Aug 8, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com
Legislators in at least 30 states introduced ridiculous "voucher" bills that allow (some) kids to take the money for their public education and put it into private schooling.
Posted on Jul 31, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com
Women of color are being aggressively prosecuted for supposed transgressions they'd committed while trying to raise their children.
Posted on Jun 24, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com
Alabama's HB 56 combines the harshest provisions of anti-immigrant ordinances and state laws that have been passed in recent years.
Posted on Jun 15, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com
The former BART police officer who killed Oscar Grant on New Year’s Day in 2009 has been released from jail, but for Grant's family, the wounds are still fresh.
Posted on May 30, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com
Educational disparities may be getting worse, not better, yet the heated debate over school reform has paid little attention to the hard realities families and teachers face.
Posted on May 25, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com
On the final day of her talk show, a look at her complicated legacy.
Posted on May 8, 2011, Source: Colorlines.com
Michigan's new emergency financial managers are being dispatched to poor communities of color, where they're being given total power to attack public institutions.
Posted on Dec 17, 2010, Source: Colorlines.com
Does the the bill have the votes to break a GOP filibuster?
Posted on Oct 23, 2009, Source: ColorLines RaceWire
Families are being torn apart by deportation at the treacherous intersection of immigration enforcement and the criminal justice system.
Posted on Feb 8, 2008, Source: ColorLines
Disney’s suggestions about where folks of color belong in the American fairytale narrative are egregiously offensive.
