DCPS advocate Peter MacPherson died last month. Among his many public education advocacy roles, Peter was for more than a decade DCPS’s school library champion. For all the years I have had the great fortune of working with excellent public education advocates in DC, I never was pushed so relentlessly, and for so long, by … Continue reading The Fight For DCPS & Democracy: The Living Work Of Peter MacPherson

This week, a coalition of education advocates demanded a public hearing around the collapse of Eagle Academy. Sadly, they have ample reason for that demand. Consider that on August 23, Phil Mendelson, the chair of the DC council (i.e. pretty much the only person exercising any education oversight in the Wilson Building), sent a letter … Continue reading Inaction In The Face of Obfuscation & Misrepresentation Around Eagle