David Hunn was a general assignment education reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch . He wrote about Catholic, private, and charter schools, state testing, and public school corruption. Hunn came to the Post-Dispatch in 2005 from the Bakersfield Californian , where he covered the city school district. Before that, he taught seventh-grade English in Los Angeles. He has been awarded by several state and local press agencies for his work, and won three awards from the national Education Writers Association, including a first place in 2004 for a story on a special education student who attacked a teacher.

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