Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Mississippi child care workers are strained by low pay and lack of training — but an additional $5 an hour in salary would prompt around […]
Christina A. Samuels
Christina Samuels oversees coverage of early childhood education, as well as K-12 education in the South. Samuels previously worked at Education Week, where she covered topics such as educational equity, special education, early childhood education and school district governance. She also had stints as a staff writer at The Washington Post and The Miami Herald. In 2009, she was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, and in 2011 she participated in the Education Policy Fellowship Program in Washington, D.C. Samuels earned a bachelor’s degree in newspaper journalism from Florida A&M University in Tallahassee.
