Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education

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,…

More than 200 D.C. families that thought their children would have a shot at getting into one of the city’s most prestigious public high schools had their hopes extinguished last week when they learned they no longer qualify — because of a…

The D.C. Board of Ethics and Government Accountability (BEGA) issued former Deputy Mayor for Education Jennifer Niles a public censure for her role in a school transfer scandal that cost her and former Chancellor Antwan Wilson their jobs. …

After a year-long investigation, the D.C. ethics board has censured former Deputy Mayor of Education Jennifer Niles over her role in a school transfer scandal that led to the resignation of two of the top education officials in the…

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.

Suppose you are mayor of Washington and your public school system has just gone through a series of scandals that you fear could turn families away. Then suppose you have a chance to fill a top education spot — deputy mayor for education —…

Mayor Muriel Bowser has chosen Paul Kihn, a former consultant for D.C. Public Schools to be the District’s new Deputy Mayor of Education. As the highest education official in the city, Kihn would be charged with overseeing education…

In a contentious hearing on Tuesday, four D.C. councilmembers pressed the mayor’s education deputy and the Urban Institute’s education policy director to not undermine the legislative branch as it works to create a research collaborative…