Kate Payne
As a Tallahassee native, Kate Payne grew up listening to WFSU. She loves being part of a station that had such an impact on her. Kate is a graduate of the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts. With a background in documentary and narrative filmmaking, Kate has a broad range of multimedia experience. When she’s not working, you can find her rock climbing, cooking or hanging out with her cat.
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More than 20,000 new immigrant students have enrolled in Miami-Dade County Public Schools this year - more enrollments than the district saw after Hurricane Maria. The majority come from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, crisis-hit countries covered by Biden's new parole program. -
A picture book written by a South Florida transgender activist is among the most banned kids' books in the U.S., according to the advocacy group PEN America.
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Diana Haneski says if she thought about all of the children killed by guns since the 2018 Parkland shooting, she would be paralyzed with grief. So she focuses on what she can do — help the students who are at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School now.
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A nature preserve near the Everglades will soon be home to a memorial for the 17 people who were killed five years ago at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Families of those killed say they should be remembered for how they lived, not just how they died.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis' office is scrutinizing diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at Florida's universities, as part of a campaign to root out what they claim is "indoctrination". But a top official overseeing the schools says some of the programs should continue.
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The Florida Department of Education is warning district staff to "err on the side of caution" when choosing books for their school libraries. In new guidance up for a vote, librarians are warned to avoid books that contain “unsolicited theories that may lead to student indoctrination."
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Among the titles that prison staff deemed were too inflammatory for incarcerated Floridians to read include cook books, French and Arabic language dictionaries, and a guide on how to survive solitary confinement.
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Across the country, corporate investors are buying up mobile homes parks and raising the rents — including after hurricanes. At a hard-hit trailer park in Naples, some residents are worried their landlord could try to take advantage of the storm and force them out.
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More than a week after Hurricane Ian slammed into Southwest Florida, hundreds of people are still living in storm shelters in hard-hit Lee County. Some who lost their homes say they don't know where they'll live next. WLRN's Kate Payne, on assignment for sister station WGCU, reports.
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During a visit to Broward schools, Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers — one of the country's largest teachers unions — called on Gov. Ron DeSantis to work with her members to help students, rather than trying to "divide parents and teachers" through what she says are divisive and damaging policies.
