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D.C. Council, community, to discuss future of buildings vacated by school...
Update 4 p.m.: The D.C. Council’s roundtable on vacant school building has been canceled and “may be rescheduled for a later date,” according to an e-mail from a staff member for Council member Muriel...
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More details on D.C. bus driver, attendant who left special-needs student...
A bus driver and attendant who were fired Tuesday after leaving a 4-year-old student with special needs on a bus for hours broke several procedures, said Hosanna Mahaley, the District’s state...
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Ward 8 parents, teachers challenge D.C. school closure plan
A standing-room only crowd of parents, teachers and activists gathered Tuesday evening at Savoy Elementary School in Southeast Washington to critique and challenge Chancellor Kaya Henderson’s plan to...
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D.C. Council candidate Matthew Frumin sees need for a vision on city education
Longtime education activist Matthew Frumin has decided to run in the April special election for an at-large D.C. Council seat, my colleague Tim Craig reported today. Frumin is a Wilson High parent,...
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Forgotten-child episode should not derail Petties settlement, judge says
An episode last week in which a 4-year-old boy was left forgotten aboard a school bus for seven hours should not interfere with the upcoming settlement of a long-running class-action suit involving...
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D.C. may restore ombudsman to field parents complaints, concerns about schools
D.C. parents may soon be able to take their complaints and concerns about city education to an independent ombudsman charged with helping them navigate D.C. public schools and public charter...
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Meet Julia King, D.C. Teacher of the Year
Mayor Vincent Gray surprised Julia King in her classroom last week with the news that she had been named the city’s teacher of the year.Just a few hours earlier, King, a seventh-grade teacher at D.C....
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D.C. releases results of nation’s first-ever standardized test on health and...
Fifth- and eighth graders in the District are pretty well-versed in emotional-health issues but have a lot to learn about the human body, according to results from the city’s (and the nation’s)...
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Parents concerned that DCPS does not require lockdown drills
As my colleagues Donna St. George and Lyndsey Layton reported Tuesday, parents across the country are asking questions about school security following the fatal shooting of 26 students and staff at...
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Judge dismisses long-running Petties case, gives final approval to D.C....
Update 3:30 p.m. Judge Paul L. Friedman has signed an order to dismiss the case.Original post:After 17 years of litigation, a federal judge on Wednesday said he will give final approval to D.C....
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D.C. charter schools band together to form new high school with focus on...
The D.C. Public Charter School Board offered support this week for a plan to open a new middle/high school that would offer International Baccalaureate programs and intensive foreign-language...
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DCPS should guarantee librarians in every school, task force recommends
All D.C. public schools should be guaranteed money to hire a librarian, according to a task force convened by Chancellor Kaya Henderson to make recommendations regarding school libraries.Currently more...
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Rhee’s Students First gives District education policies a middling grade
The District ranks fourth in the nation for reform-minded education policies, according to state report cards released Monday by Students First, the national lobbying organization headed by former D.C....
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Michelle Rhee responds to federal investigation of alleged DCPS cheating
Federal investigators announced Monday that they found no evidence of widespread cheating in D.C. Public Schools, despite detailed allegations of systematic cheating laid out in a whistleblower...
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D.C. charter school board objects to Rhee’s report card
When Michelle Rhee’s Students First lobbying organization released its first state policy “report cards” this week, one of the fiercest critics to emerge was an important policy player from her old...
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D.C. charter board proposes closing Imagine Southeast for poor performance
The D.C. Public Charter School Board is proposing to shutter a Ward 8 school for poor performance and will vote on the measure Thursday night.Imagine Southeast, which serves more than 500 elementary...
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Catania: No plans to reinvestigate alleged cheating in DCPS
D.C. Council Member David Catania (I-At Large), chairman of the newly reconstituted education committee, said Friday that he has no plans to investigate allegations that staff in some District schools...
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DCPS to announce final school closures Thursday
D.C. school officials said Chancellor Kaya Henderson will announce final decisions about District school closures Thursday, two months after she first proposed shuttering 20 city schools for low...
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Empower DC plans to sue over D.C. school closures
Grassroots community organization Empower DC plans to sue the District over Chancellor Kaya Henderson’s school-closure plan, saying that the closures disproportionately affect black students. “The...
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Kaya Henderson to answer council’s questions on school closures
D.C. Council members will have a chance Wednesday to question Chancellor Kaya Henderson about her plan to close 15 city schools.Henderson is scheduled to testify before the council’s new education...
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D.C. considers new graduation requirements
D.C. high school students would have to study more art and music, get more physical exercise and complete a thesis project under proposed changes to city graduation requirements.The proposal by the...
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Henderson outlines boundary change process
A citywide task force will lead the effort to determine new school boundaries and feeder patterns in the District, Chancellor Kaya Henderson said Wednesday.DCPS will convene the task force next month,...
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Are school closings just the start of DCPS reorganization?
Closing 15 D.C. schools is a first step in what will be a larger effort by the school system to reorganize resources, find new efficiencies and offer stronger academic programs across the city,...
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Can traditional school systems be replaced by charters?
When activists from the District and across the country gathered Tuesday at the U.S. Education Department to call for an end to school closures, American Federation of Teachers President Randi...
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D.C. Schools Insider is moving.
D.C. Schools Insider is moving to a new format and a new page. Go to washingtonpost.com/education for the latest education news in the District and around the region. This page will be redirected to...
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