Editor’s note: Substituting for Jill Barshay is Sarah Butrymowicz, The Hechinger Report’s investigations editor. Jill will return next week. Every school day, thousands of students are suspended for vague, subjective reasons, such as defiance and disorderly conduct. Our investigative team recently took a deep dive into these punishments, based on 20 states for which we […]
Fazil Khan
Fazil Khan was a Hechinger Report data reporter responsible for gathering and analyzing education data and collaborating with other reporters to expose inequality and examine innovation in education. He was a 2021 graduate of the M.S. Data Journalism program at Columbia Journalism School where he was also chosen as a post-graduate fellow for the school's Global Migration Project. He started his career as a copyeditor at one of India's leading business dailies in 2018 and had been working as a correspondent at CNN-News18 in Delhi, India, before moving to New York in 2020 for his graduate degree.
