Phyllis Fletcher                               reporter   .   producer   .   host   .   Seattle   .

Selected Awards 2008 Northwest Excellence in Journalism, Society of Professional Journalists First Place, Nationally Edited Story: Men Face Ban from Women's Practice Squads / listen (3:56) 2007 Northwest Excellence in Journalism, Society of Professional Journalists First Place, Feature News: Pioneer in Disabled Workforce Retires / transcript / RealAudio / mp3 (3:43) First Place, Nationally Edited Story: Sprockettes / read and listen (3:42)

Documentary

Sweet Phil from Sugar Hill / Excerpt from a prison letter. / License Sweet Phil for broadcast.

"Polished and intriguing."    The Washington Post

"A real find. Brutal, funny, and refreshingly unsentimental."    Third Coast International Audio Festival

"Incredible."    Chicago Tribune

A man has 14 children with 13 different women, dies young, and leaves them to learn about him through each other and the letters he wrote from prison. A contributing feature of 2004 Peabody Award winner Transom.org, an online workshop for public radio. Recording and production made possible through the Jack Straw Productions Artist Support Program.

Paramount Duty: K-12 Education and the Recession
Increasingly, public schools serve poor children. Families have fallen into poverty as a result of the mortgage crisis and the loss of jobs. The Puget Sound region continues to attract refugees and other immigrants, some of whom are using pencils for the first time. Families living on the edge have slipped into homelessness. Federal law says schools must serve all these children and improve in serving them each year, or risk losing everything--including control of their schools. And the Washington State Constitution says the education of all children is the state's "paramount duty." This series documents how the recession has affected children, parents, teachers, and school districts in the Puget Sound region.