Schools

While seeking a new home, the acclaimed Children’s Studio School has been taking its innovative classes on location so low-income and homeless children can learn in their own neighborhoods. Founder Marcia McDonell refers to the current…

In education policy circles, accountability and metrics are frequent topics for discussion and debate. In the rest of the country, people just want to know how our schools are doing and whether our children are getting a good education.…

The bell at D.C.’s newest school will be ringing this fall.

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 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…

WASHINGTON — Four Maryland parents and a D.C. employee are in hot water with the city, facing fraud charges for allegedly enrolling their children in District schools.

Advocates and parents resign themselves to hoping for the best.

Lewis D. Ferebee has questions.

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…

Some might not expect a school in southeast Washington, D.C., to have the only all-black robotics team at a national competition. Others might look at Hendley Elementary School’s Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and…

Last year, local media exposed the widespread corner-cutting that had been boosting the District of Columbia Public School’s graduation rates, wherein high schools allowed students to pass courses and walk across the stage even after they…

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…

How one school is using co-teaching and computer-based learning to maximize the amount of individual attention each student receives

A proposal to force charter schools to post more information to their websites has exposed a long-simmering debate in the District: Should traditional public schools and charter schools have to follow the same rules?