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When Vanessa Bertelli moved with her family from Shanghai to Washington in 2010, she was sure her children would have access to dual language education. It is, after all, the nation’s capital. A child of a bilingual family, Bertelli grew…

Absenteeism, safe transportation to schools and principal retention are the “top of mind” priorities for new DC Public Schools Chancellor Lewis Ferebee, he told members of the State Board of Education at their working session this month. …

A new year means new leadership for DC’s State Board of Education (SBOE), and this year’s selections brought fresh evidence of a change in direction. The board elected Ward 3’s Ruth Wattenberg and Ward 8’s Markus Batchelor to one-year…

Update, Jan. 16: The DC State Board of Education will vote at its monthly meeting tonight on a set of policy recommendations developed by its staff on how best to improve teacher retention. The proposal, presented at the board’s Jan. 9…

Voting isn’t over for residents of DC’s Ward 4. They will take to the polls on Tuesday to choose their representative on the State Board of Education. One month after elections for board seats in wards 1, 3, 5 and 6, this special election…

As a DC Public Schools student, Alexsandra Alfonso had to overcome unusual educational challenges due to her visual impairments — for instance, she once had to wait a month to receive a textbook in braille. Even so, she graduated with…

A decade into mayoral control of the schools, questions about whether the DC Council should add a level of independence for the state education agency have become a major issue in the DC State Board of Education races.   Two new bills —…

With the November election just around the corner, contenders for the open State Board of Education seats in wards 1 and 5 tackled some of the District’s most pressing — and controversial — education issues at a recent forum organized by…

A senior at H.D. Woodson High School in Northeast, Dana J. Dudley usually spends a lot of his time thinking about upcoming football games. But standing in the Roosevelt High School atrium on a late September evening in front of his laptop…

The DC State Board of Education will hear next week from DC teachers as well as a panel of local and national experts as board members examine the effects of high teacher turnover rates on students and seek to identify ways to improve…

DC residents will have a chance tonight to weigh in on their priorities for the next schools chancellor as part of the search for a permanent leader for the DC Public Schools. The Sept. 11 community forum — the last in a series of three…

When the DC Board of Education ran the city’s school system, the contests sometimes offered a prelude to future elections, with the positions offering a springboard to the DC Council or the mayor’s office for politicians such as Marion…

The girls at Excel Academy in Anacostia weren’t sure whether they would have to change schools this year. But by the start of the school year last week, students navigated through a small crowd that cheered “Welcome back to school” and…

By the end of the year, parents will be able to compare all the public schools in the District — both traditional and charter — using one tool. But with work on a final design underway, the inclusion of a one- to five-star rating for each…

Maya Wilson squeezed through the crowd that packed Pennsylvania Avenue for the March for Our Lives. She was trying to reach the nearest Starbucks — anywhere with Wi-Fi — to send updates to be published on the Huffington Post’s social media…

With education foremost on many voters’ minds, residents packed into the Thurgood Marshall Center for a recent candidates forum focusing on the issue. The event organizer, the Coalition for D.C. Public Schools and Communities (C4DC),…