Read the Chronicle’s original ‘Undercover Student’ project

In 1992, the San Francisco Chronicle sent reporter Shann Nix undercover into George Washington High School to document the unvarnished reality of how severe budget cuts stemming from Proposition 13 were impacting teachers and students. The result was the four-part “Undercover Student” series. The stories earned praise from Chronicle readers, but left some of the students and counselors that Nix interacted with — and lied to — with more complex emotions. Thirty-two years later, reporter Peter Hartlaub revisited the project in a new story, speaking with Nix, now Shann Jones,...