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Ashly McGlone is an investigative reporter from San Diego, California for the non-profit news organization Voice of San Diego. She has published several nationally recognized stories related to education in the San Diego Unified School District.

Biography
Ashly McGlone attended Point Loma Nazarene University, where studied abroad in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism with a minor in Spanish in 2009.

Voter-approved construction bonds
Ashly McGlone was noted in 2016 for her report “Several Years and $1 Billion Later, San Diego Schools Are Actually in Worse Shape,” which described the impact of a pair of voter-approved construction bonds on San Diego Unified School District facilities. The chief public information officer for the district, Andrew Sharp, expressed frustration at her reporting and joked with a fellow reporter at the Voice of San Diego that if McGlone wasn't careful, no one should be surprised if her body washed up on shore. Sharp later apologized for the joke.

Turf fields
Ashly McGlone received county-wide attention for her 2016 reporting of the performance issues at nearly two dozen turf fields at various San Diego schools with some fields needing $300,000 or more in repairs.

Sweetwater Schools Scandal
Ashly McGlone was recognized by the San Diego Press Club and others for her 2017 reporting on the investigation of Sweetwater Union High School District superintendent, Jesus Gandara, who was terminated in 2011 under suspicious circumstances.

Sexual misconduct in schools
Ashly McGlone and Mario Koran at Voice of San Diego published an investigative series about sexual misconduct in San Diego schools in 2017 and 2018 which received widespread media attention. In November 2017, McGlone requested records related to substantiated sexual misconduct from all 43 public school districts in the county, and has reported on their response. The articles published by McGlone and Koran discussed a lack of internal procedures, policies and transparency surrounding sexual misconduct at several schools including La Jolla High School, Pacific Rim Elementary, San Dieguito Academy, La Costa Canyon High School, and Hilltop High School. The articles discussed the exit deals, secrecy, and poor record-keeping that allowed school employees to move to a new school or keep their jobs even after sexual misconduct has been substantiated. The reporting was broadcast on FOX 5 San Diego and recognized by San Diego County Taxpayers Association. U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos responded to the reports. McGlone won the Sol Price Award for Responsible Journalism for the story “Women Say Complaints of Unwanted Touching by La Jolla Teacher Went Largely Ignored.”