Laura Meckler
Washington, D.C.
Reporter covering K-12 education across the country, as well as federal education policy and politics
Education: Washington University in St. Louis, A.B. in political science and international development
Laura Meckler is national education writer for The Washington Post, where she covers education across the country as well as federal education policy and politics. She came to The Post from the Wall Street Journal, where she covered presidential politics, the White House, changing American demographics, immigration and health care. Before that, she worked at the Associated Press's Washington bureau and covered state government in Columbus, Ohio.
She got her start writing about everything from schools and cops to the annual Pro Football Hall of Fame Festival at the Repository newspaper in Can