Jolie Peal
Reporter
Jolie Peal joined the newsroom as the education reporter in 2023. Previously, she interned at Hail Varsity covering sports and worked for The Daily Nebraskan covering news and culture. Outside of reporting, you can find the Nebraska native hanging out with her cat Dorothea, seeing new movies, reading and listening to Taylor Swift — and yes, her cat is named after a Taylor Swift song. Jolie is a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Recent News Stories
- Special education, services for Nebraskans with disabilities targeted in hypothetical education department cuts
- Nebraska regents approve $500 million Project Health increase, Gold contract extension
- ‘A part of the engine that's gone:’ Budget cuts leading to fewer tenure spots at Nebraska campuses
- UNK ending summer commencement due to declining participation, rising costs
- Board of Regents voter guide: Candidates focus on budget, building enrollment
- Childcare organization expands into Nebraska with four centers, two more planned
- Regents to consider more than $550 million increase to Project Health in Omaha
- Nebraska education board approves funds for healthy food initiative, discusses grant process
- A ‘resilient’ community: Lexington school enrollment dropped less than feared after Tyson closure
- University of Nebraska regents appoint four Nebraska Medicine board members
- New navigator group could help Kearney parents find childcare
- National professors' organization encourages leading research group to deny UNL readmission
- ‘You have something to say’: Nebraska teen who won film competition encourages others to apply
- UNO Community Counseling Clinic has trained students, provided affordable care for 50 years
- Omaha superintendent highlights communications changes after shock gloves revelations
- Omaha Public Schools proposes 8.2-cent levy increase to help close state aid shortfall
- Amid a historic wildfire year, Nebraska college launches new fire curriculum
- Nebraska education board fails to pass social studies standards as members split along partisan lines
- Amid declining state financial support, NU president calls on Nebraskans to share impacts of university
- Data shows Nebraska military families face unique childcare challenges
- $10M federal grant awarded to Nebraska to study and grow statewide reading program
- Omaha Westside community speaks out against use of electric shock gloves
- Omaha officials announce four affordable housing projects as part of $40 million investment
- Identity Preparatory Academy opens in North Omaha as state’s first Black-founded school
- OPS superintendent asks city, police to stop use of electric shock gloves