OSSE Announces My School DC to Receive Cafritz Award for Team Innovation
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Contact: Fred Lewis
OSSE Announces My School DC to Receive Cafritz Award for Team Innovation
Today, the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) announced that My School DC, which runs the…
Capital Projections: Hard copy edition
Capital Projections is The DC Line’s selective and subjective guide to some of the most interesting arthouse and repertory screenings in the coming week.
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One of the defining conflicts of…
Martin G. Murray: Walt Whitman celebrates DC, and DC celebrates Walt Whitman
“This is the city and I am one of the citizens,” Walt Whitman declared in his signature poem Song of Myself. “Whatever interests the rest interests me, politics, wars, markets, newspapers, schools, … real estate and personal estate.”
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Robert Henderson: Our children know they’re attending segregated schools. We need policies that will…
A couple of weeks ago, my 7-year-old son asked me a heart-wrenching question: “Dad, are schools still segregated?”
My son attends a racially and socioeconomically diverse public charter school in Ward 5, but after three years of morning…
Washington Post: Jack Evans will not seek reelection as Metro board chairman amid ethics probe
Jack Evans said Thursday he will not seek reelection as Metro board chair when his term ends June 30, and the head of the board’s ethics committee said it has closed an investigation of Evans, but will say no more about it to the public.
WTOP: Jack Evans to leave role as Metro board chairman
Jack Evans, who has been under federal investigation, will not seek reelection to another term as chairman of the Metro board but will remain on the board.
DCist: This New Campaign Plans To Spend ‘Seven Figures’ Pushing For D.C. Statehood. But It Won’t…
A new statehood push is putting the issue of D.C.’s disenfranchisement in front of presidential candidates, though the campaign is declining to say where its funding is coming from.
The Appeal: D.C. shows mercy for people who committed crimes as children, but prosecutors are…
U.S. attorneys in D.C. have opposed the resentencing of all 14 people who have petitioned for early release under a local law.
City Paper: Did The Princeton Place Killer Take Credit for a Murder He Didn’t Commit?
Former detective Jim Trainum raises questions.
City Paper: The Accelerated Plan to Close United Medical Center May Have Disastrous Consequences for…
Vince Gray's newest plan to get it done has critics asking: At what cost?
District Links: Evans stepping down as Metro board chair; council, mayor spar over housing funds;…
Good Thursday morning. Hillary Clinton will be in Congress Heights today, at GW University’s Rodham Institute Summit on health.
Norton to Give Floor Speech on D.C. Statehood, Today
May 23, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
Norton to Give Floor Speech on D.C. Statehood, Today
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following the endorsement of 18 national advocacy groups and unprecedented momentum for statehood for the District of…
jonetta rose barras: Mayor Bowser, the gentrification bogeyman and Shaw Middle School
For multiple decades, DC families — regardless of how long they’ve been in the city, their race or their ethnicity — have shared a common dream: a public education system that allows their children to attend top-quality institutions in…
Washington Post: Board of embattled Monument Academy says charter school should close
The leaders of an embattled D.C. charter school facing concerns about student safety announced Wednesday they are considering shutting down the campus at the end of the academic year.
Washington Post: D.C. attorney general rejects deal to waive terms of hotel’s $46 million tax break
District officials can’t let the developer behind an upscale hotel in Adams Morgan off the hook after it failed to meet the conditions of a $46 million tax abatement awarded to the project, according to D.C. Attorney General Karl A.…
ABC7: More than 3,000 D.C. students perform at Kennedy Center for arts festival
WASHINGTON (ABC7) — It was a first-time performance at the Kennedy Center for students like 10-year-old Yazi Berg of Barnard Elementary School in Northwest. "I feel so happy because I feel like my parents are going to be so proud of me,"…
Norton Statement on Confirmation of Carl J. Nichols to U.S. District Court for D.C.
May 22, 2019
Contact: Jack Miller
Norton Statement on Confirmation of Carl J. Nichols to U.S. District Court for D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following Senate confirmation today of Carl J. Nichols to the U.S. District Court for the…
Curbed: Metro to negotiate with D.C. over Columbia Heights dog park parcel
The transit agency is offering to sell the land to the District for more than $2 million
WTOP: Leaning tree of DC: Park service lifts toppled Washington Monument mulberry tree
A mulberry tree on the grounds of the Washington Monument in D.C. that toppled due to saturated ground from heavy rain was raised by the National Park Service. But not by much.
Curbed: Major mixed-use project in Anacostia could move forward with proposed tax subsidy
Mayor Bowser says she will reintroduce a tax-increment financing bill in June