Though We The People are so much more (and better!) than the philanthropists and privatizers proposing to "fix" our public schools (while naturally endeavoring to get a piece of DC’s annual $1.8 billion in public education money), many events in late 2019 show that DC school governance appears to operate on a very different principle. … Continue reading Late 2019 Education Events In Brief (Anti-Democracy Edition)

Hello DC taxpayers: You may have just lost a lot of money! That is, depending on the fate of a bill (23-0256) to exempt four charter school properties from property taxes (which the DC council on December 3 voted to approve), the loss could be almost $11 million in lost property tax revenue. First introduced … Continue reading The Public Costs Of Legislating Private Wealth

While I was writing this blog post, on the November 25 DC council hearing on safe passage, a DC public school student who was shot during school hours died and DCPS announced the closure of an alternative high school whose students had poor attendance, quite possibly because many had to travel across town to attend … Continue reading Safe Passage To Nowhere