District Links: Read up on what the DC Council approved in its first budget vote; Banneker-Shaw battle is latest gentrification debate; and more reads

By Cuneyt Dil On May 14, 2019 Last updated May 14, 2019

Happy Tuesday. The DC Council gave initial approval today to the 2020 budget and related legislation with only one close vote. Amid multiple references to broken promises, it came on an unsuccessful amendment that would have backed the mayor’s plans to move Benjamin Banneker Academic High School to Shaw.

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