Isabella Haegg '20 presents her certificate project, "A “timeout” on charter? Princeton’s debate," during the Program in Journalism's Senior Colloquium.
I spent the spring exploring the debate surrounding school choice in Princeton, particularly the aftermath of the charter school’s contentious expansion, for the first issue of a new Princeton online journal, interviewing parents, teachers, and administrators, as well as analyzing public financing data. When the editor wanted me to make changes that were not supported by the empirical facts and remove relevant and important details from the story, I pulled the article and looked for submission to other publications instead, making for an important lesson in journalistic integrity.