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D.C. public schools are pushing back enforcement deadlines for students who fail to receive their required vaccinations, including against COVID-19.

Students will need to be vaccinated against the coronavirus by Jan. 3

D.C. is pushing back the date by which public school students must be up-to-date on vaccinations, according to a letter sent to school leaders Friday.

D.C. is delaying enforcement of student vaccine policies for several months, as the city struggles to bring thousands of students into compliance with routine and COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

On Tuesday and early this morning, Howard University received bomb threats, leading students to evacuate and prompting an investigation.

A large group of first-year American University students walked out of a convocation ceremony on campus Friday as a days-long strike by a staff union intensified.

The last time Althea Littles spoke to her son Treyvon was two days before he died. Littles says they were talking about plans for his upcoming release from the D.C. Jail: what he wanted her to cook, who was going to pick him up. Her son…

The D.C. Peace Academy recognized its first class of violence interrupters to graduate from a program committed to raising up frontline workers in communities battling rising homicide rates.

The calendar says a new school year is about to begin. But looking at the data, it is clear that the challenges our students, schools and families have faced over the past two years remain the same.

City government workers in the District can no longer be punished for choosing not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a D.C. Superior Court judge who effectively threw out the COVID-19 vaccine mandate that applied to all D.C.…

While Casa Ruby in D.C. faced funding cuts and allegations of financial irregularities, its founder, Ruby Corado, focused on consolidating the growth of a new organization she called Casa Ruby, El Salvador Chapter.

A D.C. judge ruled Thursday that Mayor Muriel Bowser can no longer require that D.C. government employees get a COVID-19 vaccine, unraveling a mandate that applied to the city’s workforce of more than 30,000.

A D.C. Superior Court judge on Thursday said the vaccination mandate Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) imposed on city government workers earlier this year was unlawful in response to opposition from the D.C. police union.

Privately funded program is meant to train those who mediate conflicts on the streets of D.C.

Bailey Reavis, of Adams Morgan, long assumed she would never pay off her student debt. She’d enrolled in the University of Colorado Boulder as an in-state student to minimize her debt. Since graduating eight years ago, Reavis has been…

Seven years ago, the District of Columbia made an ambitious commitment: It would aim to eliminate traffic deaths in the city by 2024. Christened Vision Zero, the program prompted other cities and jurisdictions in the region to follow,…

The results of Tuesday's primary election in New York City ensure a change in the top Democrat on the House committee that has oversight of the District. Meanwhile, the outcome of November's election will determine what their role is,…

President Biden yesterday announced the cancellation of up to $10,000 in federal student loans and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients, offering some relief to borrowers in our area.

The U.S. Court of Appeals rejected each of the union’s arguments against a law aimed at improving police accountability.

D.C. schools Chancellor Lewis Ferebee spent the morning with first-graders and parents at C.W. Harris Elementary School on Wednesday, where he announced a new initiative to improve literacy.