DC State Board of Education

The votes have been counted, the election certified, the incumbents returning to their seats. So what’s going on in Ward 4?

How much was a single vote worth in this month’s D.C. State Board of Education elections? Maybe $3? $5? Even $8?

In what turned out to be an expensive D.C. State Board of Education race, educators and those seeking to shake up the system won by double-digit percentages.

D.C. voters had a philosophical question about public education to answer at the polls Tuesday: Did they want candidates who would more likely be fervent advocates of the traditional public school system, or those who would bolster public…

In a year when D.C. schools have been marred by scandals, usually sleepy State Board of Education races have pulled in hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations. Four seats — drawing 10 contenders — are on the ballot Tuesday.…

Last Thursday, Emily Gasoi made a strange announcement. The Ward 1 candidate for the D.C. State Board of Education tweeted that someone had used fake email addresses to impersonate her campaign on local listservs, posting racially charged…

WASHINGTON — D.C. public and charter schoolteachers appeared before the D.C. State Board of Education Wednesday night to offer some of the reasons why the District has an unusually high turnover rate of teachers.

This year, in an unusual showing, some D.C. State Board of Education candidates have raised a considerable amount of money ahead of the Nov. 6 election. State board members have had limited authority in the District, but given the scandals…

Money continues to trickle to the candidates running to be on the D.C. State Board of Education — positions that wield little power in the District but have attracted significant amounts of money. More than $225,000 has flowed into four…

The checks are flowing in from across the country: $200 from a charter school principal in New York, $100 from a Silicon Valley employee, another $100 from a school leadership consultant in North Carolina. The money, more than $150,000 and…

Imagine if each year a company lost about a quarter of its staff, and after five years over half the employees were new. That’s what’s happening with teachers in public schools in D.C., according to a new report commissioned by D.C.’s State…

The D.C. Auditor’s office says the District’s principals are the most stressed in the nation, and the policy of only giving school leaders one-year contracts is largely to blame. The report, commissioned in response to a request from the…