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Claudia Rowe - Foster Care - Wards of the State

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CLAUDIA ROWE has been writing about the hallways where kids and government clash for more than 30 years. A native of New York City now living in Seattle, her reporting on racially skewed school discipline for The Seattle Times helped to change education laws in Washington State and her coverage of Latino youth gangs was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Rowe has also written for The New York Times, Mother Jones, and Amazon Original Stories. In 2018 she received the Washington State Book Award for her true crime memoir The Spider and the Fly (Dey Street). She is a member of the editorial board at The Seattle Times, where she writes about foster care, juvenile justice, and public education.

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