Lewis Ferebee

After extended listening sessions — where acting schools chancellor Lewis Ferebee visited schools, parent groups and sat through hours of testimony in Council hearing — the chancellor announced some major changes within his upcoming budget…

Three years after launching an expensive education experiment, the District is eliminating extended school years at 13 campuses after city leaders said there was scant evidence of improved academic achievement, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D)…

The experiment of tying teachers’ evaluations and pay to student test scores is over. It captured the imagination of decision-makers in D.C., Denver and nationwide a decade ago. As Post columnist David Von Drehle pointed out, the demand to…

The top three educational leaders in the District of Columbia all have one thing in common: they’ve all studied under a wealthy philanthropist’s educational leadership program that promotes a business perspective in the management of…

An attentive crowd of 60 met at the Cleveland Park Library for the Wilson Feeder Education Network meeting on Monday, February 11th. Parents, teachers, educators, stakeholders and at least two students in attendance were eager to listen,…

Advocates and parents resign themselves to hoping for the best.

D.C. Council members gave Lewis D. Ferebee on Tuesday a window into the political minefield that could await him if he is confirmed as the next chancellor of the District’s public school system.

Lewis D. Ferebee has questions.

This time, they want it to be different.

As Lewis Ferebee faces confirmation hearings before securing the top job in Washington, D.C., schools, his record as superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools offers insight into how he would lead.

Dr. Lewis Ferebee has been running the public school system in Indianapolis since 2013. He reportedly beat out 40 other candidates for the job in the nation's capitol.

D.C. residents and teachers offered some advice Wednesday night to the educator nominated to lead the city’s schools: Listen to us and be a champion for our campuses.

The first of three hearings leading up to the D.C. Council’s vote on the nomination of Lewis D. Ferebee as the District’s schools chancellor is scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday.

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — The new Acting Chancellor of DC Public Schools, Lewis Ferebee, started his first day of school on Thursday greeting staff, parents and students at Anne Beers Elementary School in Southeast, D.C.

INDIANAPOLIS — Lewis D. Ferebee was four years into his tenure as Indianapolis schools superintendent when his “out-of-the-box” approach drew public praise from the nation’s top education official.