2013 Investigative Reporting for Print/Online (Medium Staff) Third Prize: Susan Ferriss

Throwaway Kids

Judges’ Comments

“Susan Ferriss’s work on the lack of education provided to expelled farmworkers’ children is interesting and compelling.”

“This ambitious effort by Susan Ferriss told a sad and important story about the educational challenges faced by expelled students in a rural part of California. Typically, these are children of struggling workers who lack the means to drive to distant alternative schools for which there are no school buses. So these kids are assigned to study at home alone, a recipe for failure.”