Opinion

It’s not just that DC Attorney General Karl Racine persuaded 207,451 voters to mark their ballots for him in this month’s recent general election that brought me to this decision to “salute” him. Yes, his showing was impressive. After…

When I transferred my children from their DC charter school into our neighborhood school last year — Southwest’s Amidon-Bowen Elementary — I was seeking diversity and community. But having made the switch to our racially diverse…

When DC Mayor Muriel Bowser took her victory lap the day after the 2018 general election, she identified education as one of the primary issues for her second term. She promised to provide District children and youth the quality education…

Two years ago, a group of parents began laying the groundwork for a proposed new public charter school. On the edge of Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Ward 8, it holds great promise for children from the surrounding neighborhoods as well as…

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser glided into her press room Wednesday, fresh from her general election victory. She started by thanking voters and announcing her pride at being “elected as mayor a second time.” Then, with an often-underappreciated…

Without serious opposition, Mayor Muriel Bowser is inoculated against defeat in next week’s general election. That comfortable perch undoubtedly was one consideration in her decision to shine her political light on relative newcomer Dionne…

Marco Clark, the founder and chief executive officer of Richard Wright Public Charter School for Journalism and Media Arts, and I are laughing. We are remembering a story I’m happy to retell, especially around people who don’t know the full…

A Washington Post columnist wrote something earlier this year that I keep handy because it encapsulates so well a prevailing but erroneous impression of DC schools: “The District’s public school system,” columnist Petula Dvorak wrote, “has…

Months of contentious debate over One Fair Wage will end soon with the mayor’s expected signature on the DC Council bill repealing Initiative 77, which DC voters passed overwhelmingly in June. The controversy, which has raged since the…

What took them so long? DC Council members finally got serious this week about disrupting the plan to close Providence Hospital in Ward 5. They unanimously passed the Clarification of Hospital Procedure Emergency Amendment Act of 2018.…

Some DC Council members, including Ward 6’s Charles Allen, have somehow come to believe that one of the best methods for assisting low-income and African-American residents in the city is to create an environment of lawlessness. Allen…

Almost all of us can tell stories about personal restroom emergencies, many of which come to an embarrassing end. I have plenty, including the time I suddenly had to turn around less than a mile into a run and sprint back to my hotel in…

Mayor Muriel Bowser threw down two legislative proposals last week that could escalate economic development at Reunion Square in downtown Anacostia in Ward 8 and at Ward 5’s Brookland Manor on Rhode Island Avenue NE, an apartment complex…