Published:
August 8, 2019
DC Concentration students have a wealth of opportunities during their year studying in Austin to explore policy challenges and delve into issues. The 2019 LBJ DC Fellows took full advantage, including writing for the Center for Health and Social Policy's PERSPECTIVES blog and The Baines Report, which is run by LBJ students.
- Addressing the Student Debt Crisis: Federal vs. State Solutions (CHASP Perspectives blog, May 2019) by Megan Kruse, CHASP ambassador and 2019 LBJ DC Fellow
- The Gas Pump Is No Place for a Child to Play: The Case for Replacing 12th Grade with Universal Pre-K (The Baines Report, April 2019) by Salimah Jasani, 2019 LBJ DC Fellow
- Universities are Battleground for Trump Administration Directives on Transgender Students (CHASP Perspectives blog, March 2019) by Megan Kruse, CHASP ambassador and 2019 LBJ DC Fellow
- One Year After the Parkland, FL School Shooting, Reforms Are Still Unfinished (The Baines Report, February 2019) by Timothy Michalak, editor-in-chief of The Baines Report and 2019 LBJ DC Fellow
- Changing a System of Segregation Requires More Than Single-Member Districts (The Baines Report, February 2019) by Timothy Michalak, editor-in-chief of The Baines Report and 2019 LBJ DC Fellow
- Jails: Texas' Largest Mental Health Institutions (CHASP Perspectives blog, January 2019) by Emma Nye, CHASP ambassador and 2019 LBJ DC Fellow
- This Immigrant Muslim Woman Says: Please Don't Unfriend Your Annoying Republican Uncle (The Baines Report, January 2019) by Salimah Jasani, 2019 LBJ DC Fellow
- Affirmative Action by a Different Name: How Sports Helped Me Get into Harvard (CHASP Perspectives blog, December 2018) by Melissa Bellin, CHASP ambassador and 2019 LBJ DC Fellow