DC Council

The proposed fiscal year (FY) 2020 budget shortchanges all DCPS schools, but particularly schools in Wards 7 and 8, which have the largest concentration of low-income students of color. In a city with both growing prosperity and deepening…

The demands of the protesters were clear: D.C. leaders need to give the city’s neighborhood schools more money.

Sweetgreen, the D.C.-born fast-casual salad chain, is doing away with its two-year-old ban on cash transactions. The company announced Thursday that all of its 94 locations—expected to grow to 110 by year’s end—will begin accepting cash…

Mayor Muriel Bowser chose the fattest budget in the District’s history to stiff Attorney General Karl Racine. The AG, arguably the most popular and effective elected D.C. official, requested to increase his office’s budget by $5 million…

The headquarters staff of the D.C. school system will shrink by 70 positions under a reorganization proposal intended to direct money to classrooms — a move that marks one of the first major decisions by the city’s new schools chief.

Lawmakers and transportation planners are floating short- and long-term fixes for dangerous roads

Proposed resolution says widening the highways would only worsen traffic in the city

Drivers struck and killed a cycling activist and a pedestrian over Easter weekend.

The latest round of deaths on D.C. roads is prompting a renewed push for safety changes from the D.C. Council.

IN THE past two years, there have been five different proposals affecting the commercial tax rate in the District. Two became law, and if the D.C. Council goes along with Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s plans for a higher rate to fund next year’s…

When Rachel Maisler planned her first memorial ride—to honor Jeff Long, a 36-year-old cyclist who was killed by the driver of a truck making a right-hand turn last year—she sought out Dave Salovesh.

“Why do we have monuments of people who owned slaves?” That’s the question that D.C. Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie’s six-year-old daughter asked him and his wife one day while driving from D.C. into Virginia.

LAST MONTH, CHARLES ALLEN, a member of the Washington, DC Council, introduced the Public School Transparency Amendment Act of 2019, which would extend the same sunshine laws applied to traditional public schools to publicly funded charter…

It’s not going well. And a potential second challenger says he would use the public funding option, too.