Cathy Carter
Cathy Carter is the education reporter for WUSF 89.7 and StateImpact Florida.
Before joining WUSF, Cathy was the local host of NPR’s Morning Edition for Delaware Public Media and reported on a variety of topics from education to the arts.
Cathy also reported for WAMU, the NPR news station in Washington D.C, was a host at XM Satellite Radio and wrote arts and culture stories for a variety of newspaper,s including the Virginian Pilot and the Baltimore Sun.
Her work has been honored by journalism organizations such as the Society of Professional Journalists, the Maryland Press Association and the Delaware Press Association.
As a Massachusetts native and a graduate of Boston’s Emerson College, Cathy - as are all citizens under state mandate - had no choice but to be born a Boston Red Sox fan.
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The fate of abortion rights in Florida is in the hands of the state’s Supreme Court. The justices’ decision hinges on whether abortion is protected under a privacy clause in the Florida constitution. -
Earlier this year, Christopher Rufo was appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to serve on the Board of Trustees at New College of Florida. He also appeared beside the governor during the signing of the state's recent Higher Education overhaul bill. -
The board saw a big change in January, when Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed six conservative trustees, who quickly fired the college's then president, and appointed former state education commissioner Richard Corcoran. -
The cancellation of the exhibit at SCF Manatee-Sarasota follows a push from Gov. Ron DeSantis to remove diversity, equity and inclusion programs from Florida's public universities. -
The smallest school in Florida’s university system, New College of Florida has about 700 students and lists one of its core values as building a “just, diverse, equitable and inclusive community” on campus.
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A nonprofit notes that over the 2021–22 school year, what started as modest school-level activity to challenge and remove books in schools grew into a full-fledged social and political movement. -
As intense heat becomes more common around the world, the potential threat to biodiversity increases. One species at particular risk to a warming climate is found on the beaches of Florida. -
Sarasota researchers find evidence that airborne exposure to red tide could have neurological impactA new study by the Roskamp Institute, found participants exhibited symptoms previously only associated with eating contaminated seafood. -
Florida’s three-and-a-half-month season began Monday. And for the first time in decades, the harvest allows for daytime hunting. -
NOAA projects that the high tide flood frequency between May 2022 and April 2023 will average 3-7 days, the same as the previous year, but an increase from the 2-6 days expected between 2019 and 2020.
