Opinion

As expected, the DC Council’s Committee on Finance and Revenue pushed online gambling forward this week by approving the Sports Wagering Procurement Practices Reform Exemption Act of 2019. The vote was 3-2, with Ward 2 member Jack Evans,…

Why is your children's education so tied to where you can afford to live? Because the river of inequity in our city runs deep, especially when it comes to our schools. As DC parents finalize their school preferences before upcoming…

Each year, the week commencing with Martin Luther King Jr. Day also marks National School Choice Week, during which a kaleidoscope of educational organizations, school leaders, teachers, parents, guardians, students and elected officials…

The flaws in the DC Council’s public policymaking were on full display earlier this week when a supermajority of the legislature chose to override Mayor Muriel Bowser’s veto of the Fare Evasion Decriminalization Amendment Act of 2018.…

When Stormiyah Denson-Jackson, a 12-year-old middle-schooler at SEED Public Charter School in Southeast, told school officials in December 2017 that “she didn’t want to live any more,” they reportedly performed an assessment that indicated…

Everyone seemed to have had a fit of indignation recently when the media reported that couples couldn’t get marriage licenses because the DC Marriage Bureau was closed — another victim of the federal government shutdown, instigated by the…

For years, students in DC Public Schools (DCPS) have endured inadequate, unreliable technology — the result of a lack of a comprehensive plan and sustainable funding model for maintaining school computers, interactive Smartboards and other…

Yet again, DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and others have raised the specter of DC securing voting rights in Congress, which have long been denied to residents of the nation’s capital. Last week, with Mayor Muriel Bowser and Council Chairman…

During their swearing-in ceremony on Wednesday, several elected officials attempted to muster an air of celebration — although pomp seemed to be sorely lacking at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. It is hard to get overly excited…

DC's vacant RFK Stadium is back in the news again with reports of the federal government’s failed budget process slowing down an effort to authorize the DC government to control the fate of the 190-acre campus. Gaining site control for the…

If you visit the Metropolitan Police Department’s various district headquarters around town or the Henry J. Daly Building on Indiana Avenue NW in Judiciary Square, you’ll find aged facilities with leaky roofs and outdated heating, cooling,…

As a former student of Montgomery County Public Schools who will be graduating from Boston University in May, I often look back at the relationships with people who helped me along the way. For example, Ms. Reynolds, my ninth-grade English…

What was he thinking of? I wanted to ask DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson that question a day after he decided essentially to name himself and at-large Council member David Grosso co-chairs of the Committee on Education. As the head…

It’s all politics, all the time with Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration. It now appears the Office of the Attorney General has joined forces. Many of us may have thought the city was serious — ready to take it to the mattresses — to…

If confirmed by the DC Council, the mayor’s pick for DC Public Schools chancellor will arrive in office after a turbulent period during which the traditional, city-run public school system was plagued by controversy surrounding inflated…

DC public and charter schools enter winter with winds buffeting them from many sides. The mayor’s nominee for DC Public Schools chancellor, Dr. Lewis Ferebee, brings a reputation from Indianapolis for aggressive innovation. The previous…

A rising tide may lift all boats, but it can also drown the people left ashore. The Trump administration recently released a hefty new report finding devastating impacts of climate change across the country — including here in DC, where…

District leaders seemed pleased with themselves last week when they released the DC School Report Card, which features a star rating system that, for all intents and purposes, looks and feels like education shaming: A school with a highly…

Now that Thanksgiving has passed and what has traditionally been called “the giving season” gets underway, I find myself wondering what local philanthropy is going to look like in the months and years ahead. In a time of relentless breaking…