Stella M. Chávez
StellaChávezisKERA’seducation reporter/blogger. Her journalism roots run deep: She spent a decade and a half in newspapers – including seven years atThe Dallas Morning News, where she covered education and won the Livingston Award for National Reporting, which is given annually to the best journalists across the country under age 35. The award-winning entry was “Yolanda’s Crossing,” a seven-partDMN series she co-wrote that reconstructs the 5,000-mile journey of a young Mexican sexual-abuse victim from a smallOaxacanvillage to Dallas. For the last two years, she worked for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,where she was part of the agency’s outreach efforts on the Affordable Care Act and ran the regional office’s social media efforts.
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Refugee Services of Texas, the state’s largest resettlement agency, has closed after 45 years. KERA’s Stella Chavez spoke with Justin Martin about what this means. -
Oak Lawn United Methodist Church will receive migrants five days a week instead of weekly after the pandemic-era border policy known as Title 42 ends.
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April 30 marked what’s known as the Fall of Saigon. That’s the day the capital of South Vietnam fell to the communist regime of North Vietnam in 1975.
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President Biden is traveling to Uvalde, Texas, to mourn with the community. It's his second visit to a community that's been devastated by a mass shooting in less than two weeks.
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Heat has killed hundreds of workers in the U.S., many in construction or agriculture, an investigation by NPR and Columbia Journalism Investigations found. Federal standards might have prevented them.
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Manuel and Patricia Oliver lost their son in the Parkland, Fla., school shooting last year. This weekend they planned to unveil a mural in his honor in El Paso. It's become an impromptu memorial.
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After a solemn ceremony, Dallas city and police officials unveiled a sculpture honoring five police officers killed in a sniper attack in downtown Dallas…
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The day of the raid still haunts principal Tammy Mariani. On August 28, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, raided a Northeast…
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About 10 percent of students enrolled in college courses in Texas are still in high school. They're taking dual credit classes – that's where they get…
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Across the U.S., school districts face low literacy rates among low-income and minority students. Here's how schools in Dallas, Baltimore and the Bronx are getting at the problem a little differently.
