Alex Klaus is a graduate of Wayne State University in Detroit with a degree in urban studies and public history. In 2024, she covered education with a focus on literacy intervention efforts in the Detroit Public Schools Community District as an intern at Chalkbeat Detroit. She covered over 80 public meetings as a Detroit Documenter and served as a mentor in the network’s “Docu-Mentors” program, building a video library of tutorials equipping other Documenters with a variety of tools to confidently cover meetings. As a freelancer for Outlier Media, she pitched a solutions-oriented policing and public safety newsletter in 2022 that became Streetlight Detroit. When she’s not covering a public meeting, she’s exploring nature preserves, cooking, baking, or hanging out with friends and her cat Dottie.
Beat: Filling information and accountability gaps in K-12 education in Milwaukee by focusing on solutions to persistent problems.
The solutions education reporter will track Milwaukee's education bureaucracies while actively listening to students, parents, educators and other community stakeholders. This reporter will be on the lookout for best practices and solutions and focus on how to solve the myriad problems (and opportunities) in Milwaukee’s education system.