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Boiler operator Jose Santos keeps Columbia Heights campus tuned up and energy efficient

Catherine Lee Aug 9, 2019

It’s early morning, and Jose Santos peers at the computer monitor in his basement office at the Columbia Heights Educational Campus on 16th Street NW. On the screen, a blue-and-green diagram corresponds to the water pumps, boilers and air…

News

Volunteer makeover creates new STEM lab to inspire ‘a love of learning’ at Anacostia’s Ketcham…

Gabrielle Wanneh Jun 26, 2019

Ketcham Elementary School in Ward 8’s historic Anacostia neighborhood just turned a cluttered old library room into a bright new STEM lab, replete with new iPads, robots and 3D printers — all thanks to a partnership with two regional…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: Playing fast and loose with at-risk education funds

jonetta rose barras Jun 20, 2019

It’s understandable that some DC residents might feel as if they’ve been cast in a remake of Groundhog Day. In that 1993 film, Bill Murray’s character keeps waking up to the same day, replete with the same remarks and the same behavior by…

Arts and Culture

Short film starring DC students explores ‘pushout’ in high schools

Will Lennon Jun 19, 2019

Half out of breath, Teonna rushes through the front door of her high school. She throws her bag and jacket onto a conveyor belt, which ushers her belongings toward an X-ray machine. She asks a classmate for the time and is relieved to…

Opinion

Iris Bond Gill and Suzanne Wells: DC needs an education vision for equity and efficiency

Commentary Jun 19, 2019

In what has become an annual rite of spring, the DC Public Charter School Board (PCSB) last month approved the opening of five new charter schools: one elementary, two middle and two high schools. From 2012 to 2018, the board approved the…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: time to rescue traditional public schools east of the river

jonetta rose barras Jun 13, 2019

The Ward 7 Education Council gathered last week to discuss DC Council member Charles Allen’s Public School Transparency Amendment Act 2019. As written, the proposed legislation would mandate public charter schools’ adherence to the same…

District government

Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle talks summer reading with local students

Will Lennon Jun 6, 2019

Washington Nationals closer Sean Doolittle, a fan favorite, pitched the merits of robust summer reading to dozens of first-graders at a DC Public Library kickoff event Tuesday at Murch Elementary School, where students gathered in the…

News

As selection of J.O. Wilson Elementary’s next principal draws near, debate still swirls over the…

Brennan Hafner Jun 6, 2019

For the second year in a row, parents and teachers at J.O. Wilson Elementary School are selecting a new principal — but many remain unhappy that this year’s principal wasn’t asked to return. Principal Guye Turner, who was hired last…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: Was the DC Council really talking about education?

jonetta rose barras Jun 6, 2019

“This is all about politics,” DC Council Chairman Pro Tempore and Ward 5 representative Kenyan McDuffie said repeatedly last week. He and his colleagues were engaged in a nearly two-hour debate about whether to relocate Benjamin Banneker…

Tatiana Robinson and Emma Quigg: As students, we know the impact of teacher turnover and long-term…

Commentary Jun 3, 2019

Imagine having a teacher who just gives busy work because they are filling in as a “long-term substitute.” Imagine the difficulty of getting compelling letters of recommendation for colleges when the teachers you’ve worked with during your…

News

DCPS chancellor visits Teacher of the Year’s classroom at Lafayette Elementary

Jake Maher May 28, 2019

A little over three months into his tenure as the DC Public Schools chancellor, Lewis Ferebee used Teacher Appreciation Week as a chance to shadow 2018 DCPS Teacher of the Year Lakeisha Brown and tour Ward 4’s Lafayette Elementary School,…

Opinion

Kyndell Geddis and Crystal Smith: Why Banneker should relocate

Commentary May 28, 2019

Since 1981, Benjamin Banneker Academic High School has provided DC students with a great education. Banneker’s campus at Euclid Street and Georgia Avenue NW was originally built to serve as a junior high, but over the years it has been…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: Mayor Bowser, the gentrification bogeyman and Shaw Middle School

jonetta rose barras May 23, 2019

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…

Brown v. Board at 65 — Adrienne Jennings Bennett on the Anticipation & Anxiety That Followed…

Editor May 18, 2019

How Soon Would D.C. Implement School Desegregation?

DCist: The Battle Over Banneker High School And The Shaw Middle School, Explained

Editor May 16, 2019

The D.C. Council devoted a significant portion of its daylong budget discussion on Tuesday to one plot of land: The long-closed Shaw Junior High School at 9th St. and Rhode Island Avenue NW.

City Paper: Councilmember David Grosso Loses School Renovation Debate That Divides Council

Editor May 16, 2019

Councilmembers lament that the mayor framed the issue around gentrification.

WTOP: ‘Absolutely horrific:’ Principal, parent react to video of DC middle school beating

Editor May 16, 2019

A cellphone recording of a middle school student being beaten by another has prompted the principal of a D.C. school to send a letter to parents and families about what happened and how the school is responding.

Washington Post: D.C. Council rejects mayor’s proposal to move Banneker High

Editor May 14, 2019

The D.C. Council narrowly rejected Tuesday a proposal from Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) to build a new campus for an elite high school on vacant property in the booming Shaw neighborhood.

City Paper: Council Set to Vote Down Mayor in Battle Over Shaw Junior High Site

Editor May 14, 2019

Shaw residents want a new middle school, but Banneker High needs a new facility. It has become the latest fight over race and gentrification.

Washington Post: Bowser ties fate of empty school building to D.C.’s gentrification fight

Editor May 13, 2019

The mayor has made her beliefs clear: The fate of a vacant school building on prime real estate in Northwest Washington represents the latest gentrification fight in a city full of them.

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District Links: Bowser, Pirro unveil legislation to address rise in domestic violence; Allen bill would enable…

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With domestic violence accounting for a growing share of homicides and assaults with a dangerous weapon in the District, Mayor Muriel Bowser and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro today announced new…

jonetta rose barras: Who among DC’s mayoral candidates can help the city fulfill its potential? (Part 1)

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A diverse crowd of nearly 300 people squeezed into the auditorium at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library on Monday evening; it was a standing-room-only setting at the latest DC mayoral forum,…

District Links: Moody’s pulls negative outlook it added last year to DC debt rating; House panel advances bill…

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Moody's Ratings this week removed its negative outlook on DC's debt rating while noting "the District's very strong fiscal governance and prudent budget management."

District Links: Council votes to advance permanent bill on youth curfew but delays emergency action; judge protects 15th…

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The DC Council voted yesterday to advance a modified version of the expanded youth curfew as permanent legislation, but members also put off a vote on emergency legislation that would enable the…

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