In its racial equity review about the IMPACT teacher evaluation system, D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) confirmed that evaluators, regardless of color, harbor biases that cause nonwhite instructors to receive lower scores than their white!-->…
While the March on Washington taking place on Aug. 28 will focus on informing Americans about voter suppression measures throughout the country, District leaders and activists don’t want it to be forgotten that residents of the nation’s!-->…
Five days before the start of school in D.C., the District’s State Board of Education is urging Mayor Muriel Bowser to adjust the city’s fall plans, calling for increased testing, a vaccine mandate for all students 16 and older and the!-->…
A summer of voting rights protests is culminating with crowds of thousands expected to descend on the National Mall on Saturday, demanding that elected officials enact federal legislation to protect and expand access to the ballot.
A D.C. Police officer fatally shot a man in his car around 3 a.m. Wednesday morning after responding to a report of an unconscious person at a traffic light, police said. It was the second police shooting in the District in less than 12!-->…
The D.C. Department of Corrections changed its gender housing policy in light of a class-action lawsuit filed earlier this year, but the American Civil Liberties Union of D.C. argued in court Tuesday that the new protocol, which involves!-->…
The Post has a new executive editor—Sally Buzbee, the first woman to top the masthead—and visions of becoming the world’s go-to news outlet. The story of the search for Buzbee, and the future at the hometown paper that has long stopped!-->…
Tens of thousands of public school students in the District are scheduled to return to classrooms in less than a week. Adina Ellis does not know if her six-year-old son, Cassius Cato, will be among them.
A D.C. police officer early Wednesday fatally shot a man who authorities said had a gun while sitting inside a vehicle on New York Avenue in Northeast Washington, according to a department official.
Several D.C. Council members want Mayor Muriel Bowser to remove the COVID-testing option for government employees who don’t get a COVID-19 vaccination — including anyone who has regular contact with kids in a school setting.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Capitol Police didn’t adequately respond to frantic calls for help from officers when they pressed panic buttons on their radios seeking immediate backup as scores of pro-Trump rioters beat officers with bats, poles!-->…
A majority of the 13 D.C. Council members signed a letter Tuesday calling on Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) to mandate coronavirus vaccines — without a testing option — for all public school employees and day-care workers.