The Network for Public Education, a national advocacy group, is calling for a day of action and awareness about gun violence in our schools on Friday, April 20, which is the anniversary of the mass shooting at Columbine high school. In that event, which occurred 19 years ago, 15 people died, most of them children. … Continue reading Gun Violence & Our DC Schools

As we reel from some truly awful events of late in DC public education (see here, here, here, and here, the last of which apparently didn’t even merit discussion in the recent 6-hour council oversight hearing for the charter board and deputy mayor for education), let’s talk for a moment about the people who actually … Continue reading Another School Year, More High Teacher Attrition

So, the chancellor asks for his child to be transferred into an out-of-bounds school that has no availability and voila! It happens. While the chancellor apologizes. And his boss, the deputy mayor for education, resigns. Back in the ancient times of 2017, there was this. Now it's 2018, and there's another chancellor with another lottery … Continue reading It’s 2017 All Over Again: Can We Have An Audit Of The Lottery Already?

Hey, Wards 1, 4, 6, and 8: did you know you’re in a “Green Zone”--a label given by the charter board to your wards because, well, according to a 2017 analysis buried in the charter board website, your wards are ripe for new charter schools? Hey, Ward 7: did you know that someone offered your … Continue reading Just Tell Me: Who Voted For This?

Starting on February 13 and continuing into April, the education committee of the DC city council is holding a series of performance oversight and budget hearings for education agencies in DC. Note: As currently scheduled, the budget oversight hearings for DCPS, the charter board, and the deputy mayor for education fall in the last week … Continue reading Hearings–And A Petition