Opinion

To successfully accelerate learning and to address learning loss, DC should not excise any of its school librarians. Yet, that unfortunate cut may well occur at some DC Public Schools, to the detriment of students who need their help. …

As the pandemic school year comes to a close and summer vacation gets underway, it’s clear that students and educators have shown remarkable ingenuity and resiliency throughout the crisis. Yet, for DC’s most vulnerable students,…

Now is the time to reimagine how we prioritize child care and compensate early educators in the District. As some parents begin to return to work after more than a year at home, many child care program directors are scrambling to rehire or…

Judith Sandalow sat inside the square — the virtual infrastructure made ubiquitous by the coronavirus pandemic as we’ve sought to remain both publicly active and socially distanced, hoping to halt COVID-19’s indiscriminate killing…

Ward 1 DC Council member Brianne Nadeau will conduct a public hearing next week on Mayor Muriel Bowser’s fiscal year 2022 budget and financial plan for the Department of Human Services. If past is prologue, she likely will scope out…

This week, the DC Council begins scrutinizing Mayor Muriel Bowser’s $17.5 billion Fiscal Year 2022 Budget and Financial Plan, holding a series of public hearings slated to continue throughout June. One of the areas expected to receive much…

Humans are a selfish species. We are failing to protect the planet and the tens of millions of species that inhabit Earth along with us. Where human self-interest and free markets fail, we need legislation to enforce our obligations to…

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser hasn’t formally announced whether she will run for a third term. However, the decisions behind her proposed $17.5 billion fiscal year 2022 budget and financial plan — $9.12 billion of which comes from local revenues…

When the DC Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) touts its supposed success in reducing the number of children in foster care, it fails to mention that it has accomplished this through a practice that jeopardizes the safety of DC’s…

When Mayor Muriel Bowser announced earlier this month the kickoff of a “citywide disparity study to examine the availability and utilization of minority- and women-owned business under DC procurement and contracting,” cheering could be…

Let’s all shout “Hallelujah!” Earlier this week, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the lifting of most public health emergency restrictions at facilities across the city on May 21, providing the road map to recovery that business…

Last year, I had an unexpected immersion into DC politics that exponentially increased my knowledge of the issues facing the District. When I contacted the DC Statehood Green Party (whose nominees I have always voted for) to inquire about…

As new federal money comes to DC to reverse pandemic-related learning losses and to improve literacy outcomes, the District has a unique opportunity to fix a structural problem that has plagued us for decades: insufficient teacher training…

When Black comedian Flip Wilson performed some outlandish, wholly funny routine on his television show in the 1970s, he ordinarily punctuated the laugh line with “The devil made me do it.” He may be dead, but DC Council members have been…

Educators in DC Public Schools and across the country are formulating plans to address so-called “learning loss.” As a DCPS teacher, I see every day the losses that students, families and teachers face due to COVID-19. But I also see how…

In a January opinion piece, Matthew Frumin rightly argues for additional resources for DC Public Schools — but wrongly claims that the government-run school system is underfunded compared to DC public charter schools. Public education…

What happens when DC’s deputy mayor for health and human services seems determined to steer parts of a multibillion-dollar contract to a specific company? The answer to that question has been playing out for months in the city, as the DC…

Our city — our entire society — has reached a decision point. As we begin to emerge from the worst public health crisis in a century and we grapple with the undeniable epidemic of racial injustice, we must choose how to move forward. Our…

Patrick Mara seems determined that the DC Republican Party and its members will be part of the local political mix this election cycle. “We’ve cast a wide net. We have a dozen persons interested in running for office,” he told me last week…

Under current DC zoning regulations, advisory neighborhood commissions have the right to negotiate community benefit agreements with developers with the aim of providing a financial investment into the community. These agreements, widely…