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In a darkened section of Busboys and Poets on Monroe Street NE, people sit and watch a documentary about DC residents fighting for affordable housing options just a few blocks away at the World War II-era Brookland Manor Apartments, the…
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On a cold day last February, 89-year-old Thomas Pressley walked into the 3rd District police station to report that someone had scammed him out of his money. He was fortunate to be speaking with Sgt. Juanita Eccles, a 31-year veteran of the…
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Parents lobbying the DC Council to reduce regulations on parent-led playgroups may get a decision before the end of the year, as the District’s legislators work to find a solution that does not inconvenience playgroups with overly…
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A DC Council move might speed up construction of a new hospital in Southeast Washington on the site of St. Elizabeths. Current plans call for George Washington University Hospital to run the new facility, which the city intends to serve…
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A new website, Mapping Segregation, seeks to illuminate DC’s history of racially restrictive housing covenants from the last century that continue to define the city’s segregation patterns today. The site is the brainchild of DC…
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Nearly 50 people rallied Saturday against Mayor Muriel Bowser’s plan to move the Benjamin Banneker Academic High School to the site of the former Shaw Junior High School, instead of the neighborhood middle school they say the city promised…
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While most District residents are undoubtedly familiar with Eleanor Holmes Norton, DC’s longtime delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, fewer may be aware of the city’s shadow elected officials on Capitol Hill. Since 1990, DC has…
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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 —…
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While the at-large DC Council contest has drawn the bulk of the local attention ahead of Tuesday's general election in the District, various news outlets, unions and political organizations have weighed in on races across the DC ballot.…
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Mayoral control of the city’s educational system, student enrollment and the District’s school lottery system topped the subjects that candidates for the Ward 6 seat on the DC State Board of Education explored during debates in the months…
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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…
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The at-large DC Council contest has drawn most of the attention given to the District’s Nov. 6 general election, but voters will also decide on four ward-level contests. In three of those races, Democratic nominees face challenges from…
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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…
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Mayor Muriel Bowser released the Age-Friendly DC 2023 Strategic Plan at the Avalon Theatre this week, using the opportunity to highlight recent efforts to help the city's seniors, such as lowering their property-tax bills by 50 percent,…
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A Jewish middle school is open in the District for the first time since 1976. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony this month, the Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital celebrated the completion of its expanded North Campus at…
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A recently announced early college high school slated to open in either Ward 7 or 8 answers calls for improved, local educational opportunities east of the Anacostia River. The school’s impact on nearby high schools — a concern raised by…
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After nearly two decades of disuse, the neglected Grant Building in DC’s Petworth neighborhood will soon come back to life — as an affordable assisted-living facility for eligible seniors. Since 2001, the Renaissance Revival structure…
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Mayor Muriel Bowser and her top education officials announced plans today to modernize Banneker Academic High School by relocating it to a new location a few blocks south: the former Shaw Junior High School site. The news is likely to…
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Four candidates are challenging incumbent Eleanor Holmes Norton in the Nov. 6 midterm election as she seeks to continue her decades-long tenure as DC delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. Early voting began Monday at One Judiciary…
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