Lewis Ferebee

It’s perhaps no surprise that Mayor Muriel Bowser selected Lewis Ferebee to be the next chancellor of D.C. Public Schools. His work at Indianapolis Public Schools made him a rising star nationally. His five-year tenure (above average for…

Lewis D. Ferebee, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s nominee for D.C. Public Schools chancellor, came to town last week to call on the council members charged with his confirmation. He left the John A. Wilson Building unscathed, but with little in…

Expressing “enormous frustration over education,” District lawmakers are vowing to rigorously review Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s choice to lead the city’s schools, portending a potentially bruising confirmation process.

If the D.C. Council makes a New Year’s resolution , let’s hope it will resolve to perform more aggressive oversight of the D.C. Public Schools and to hold school leaders to account.

In February 2016, a woman told officials at a public school in Indianapolis that she had found sexually explicit text messages between her 17-year-old son and a guidance counselor. In an email that evening, a top aide told Superintendent…

After 11 years of centralization, Lewis D. Ferebee, the choice of D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) to be the next D.C. schools chancellor (subject to confirmation by the D.C. Council), will bring a fresh perspective to D.C. Public Schools.…

WHEN KAYA HENDERSON resigned as schools chancellor, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) bypassed internal candidates to select someone from outside the system. Her choice was forced to resign after about one year when it was revealed that he had…

Let’s have a show of hands. How many of you know what “currently educationally disengaged” means?

Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday named Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent Lewis D. Ferebee of as the new chancellor of D.C. Public Schools, apparently rejecting her advisory panel’s recommendation.

Drum roll, please, for the new leadership of D.C. Public Schools (DCPS): Paul Kihn, who’s slated to become the deputy mayor for education, and Lewis D. Ferebee, named Monday as the incoming chancellor.

WASHINGTON – D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has picked a new schools chancellor for the District.

After a months-long search, Mayor Muriel Bowser has announced Lewis Ferebee, the former superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools, as her pick for the new D.C. Public Schools chancellor. But this isn’t the end of the process—the D.C.…

The Council’s education committee won’t move on the nomination until next year.

Lewis Ferebee has been named the new D.C. Public Schools chancellor following an extensive search that officially kicked off this summer.

Washington, D.C., is getting a new school chancellor, and it’s Lewis Ferebee, a former teacher, principal, and the current superintendent of the Indianapolis Public Schools.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Monday named the Indianapolis schools superintendent to be the next leader of D.C. Public Schools, passing over a school system veteran who guided the district through a turbulent year.

Indianapolis Public Schools superintendent Lewis Ferebee is a finalist for the open Washington D.C. schools chief job, according to someone with knowledge of the search process.

Two finalists to lead the District’s public schools emerged Saturday after a six-month search for a chancellor, according to people with knowledge of the process: Amanda Alexander, the interim D.C. chancellor, and Indianapolis Public…