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Washington Post: D.C.’s new middle school in booming Takoma reflects city’s strategy for retaining…
Six years ago, school leaders in the District shuttered more than a dozen schools because of lackluster enrollment.
Mayor Bowser Proposes Naming New Ward 4 Middle School for Civil Rights Activist Ida B. Wells
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March 25, 2019
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LaToya Foster (EOM)
Shayne Wells
Mayor Bowser Proposes Naming New Ward 4 Middle School for Civil Rights Activist Ida B. Wells
Opening This Fall, Would Be First Stand-Alone…
Mayor Bowser Adds Additional Summer Camp Locations
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 25, 2019
Mayor Bowser Adds Additional Summer Camp Locations
Registration to Open for More Than 1,000 New Camp Slots for District Youth
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Washington Post: Veterans surprise D.C. elementary school with makeover
When the children at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary in Southeast Washington left school on Friday, they had no idea what would happen there before their return on Monday.
WAMU: In Effort To Bring Down Child Care Costs, Bowser Proposes Three New Centers For Kids
The effort to bring down the sky-high costs of child care in D.C. is getting a partial boost in Mayor Muriel Bowser’s budget for the upcoming year.
Washington Post Magazine: The Lottery That’s Revolutionizing D.C. Schools
A Nobel Prize-winning economist designed an algorithm that transformed where Washington kids go to school. But how far can it go in addressing segregation and inequality?
C4DC: Despite a purported increase for DCPS, proposed budgets reduce buying power for many schools
If District officials tout an overall increase in DC Public Schools allocations for individual schools as they discuss the budget plan Mayor Muriel Bowser released today, it’s important to place the additional $56.2 million for fiscal year…
Washington Post: D.C. is thriving. Why do some school budgets appear to be shrinking?
Some District schools that serve high concentrations of students from low-income families could face steep spending cuts in the next academic year, according to a review of initial budget allocations for the school system’s more than 100…
Washington Informer: D.C. Celebrates ‘Vernon Davis Day’
One of D.C. most successful professional athletes and philanthropists recently got a unique honor — his own day.
Washington Post: Lawsuit alleges $120,000 scheme to fraudulently rent out school soccer fields
A Maryland man collected more than $120,000 by fraudulently renting out soccer fields that belong to D.C. Public Schools, District officials allege in a court file unsealed Friday.
Once slated for closure due to low enrollment, turnaround at Francis-Stevens yields new challenge
DC Public Schools plans to resolve an impending over-enrollment problem at School Without Walls at Francis-Stevens by increasing funding and creating three new classrooms, school system representatives said at a recent community meeting.…
Pledging oversight on crowded Ward 3 schools, Mendelson comes out against council vote on old Hardy…
Facing a group of outraged education activists, DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson this week criticized the mayor for submitting emergency legislation to extend a private school’s lease of a District-owned site many want converted into a…
Washington Post: A white child called three black classmates a racial slur. Months later, the school…
A racist slur hurled at three black children on a D.C. schoolyard has forced a public elementary school with a mostly white and affluent student body to address its discipline policies and examine whether the school is inclusive to…
Middle-schoolers ‘take control of their own narrative’ with Everyday DC photo project
About 100 people celebrated last week’s opening of an art exhibition at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery full of revealing photographs of daily life in DC’s neighborhoods — but instead of wine at the reception, there were Capri Suns.
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Washington Post: Should D.C.’s Woodrow Wilson High change its name?
It is a prestigious name in D.C. education circles: Woodrow Wilson High.
AFT’s Weingarten on DC Public Schools’ $5 Million Settlement with Teachers
AFT’s Weingarten on DC Public Schools’ $5 Million Settlement with Teachers
Compensation is Partial Vindication for Unwarranted Layoffs during Michelle Rhee Reign
For Release: Friday, March 8, 2019
Contact: Andrew Crook
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Washington Informer: It’s Official: Ferebee Becomes Chancellor
A little over a year after Antwan Wilson resigned as D.C. Public Schools chancellor, the city council unanimously approved Mayor Muriel Bowser’s selection of former Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent Lewis Ferebee to lead a D.C.…
Bowser Administration Announces that Enrollment in DC’s Public Schools Has Grown for a Straight…
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March 8, 2019
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LaToya Foster (EOM)
Fred Lewis
Bowser Administration Announces that Enrollment in DC’s Public Schools Has Grown for a Straight Decade
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel…
Theresa Vargas in The Post: She almost became another maternal mortality statistic. What happened…
As a D.C. public school teacher, Kassandra Johnson has taught many of her preschool-aged students how to pronounce words by telling them to look at her mouth. She has shown them how the slightest movement of her lips holds the power to…