As many as 30 principals at D.C. schools won't be reappointed for the next school year.

Nearly eight months after a legislatively set deadline, Mayor Adrian Fenty has submitted to the D.C. Council the names of two education researchers chosen to serve as independent judges of the city’s public school reform.

The Washington Teachers' Union is facing a management crisis involving infighting between its president and vice president.

After D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty was elected with a mandate to reform the city's chronically failing public education system, the District of Columbia City Council gave him extraordinary powers to get the job done, including authorization of an unprecedented takeover of the city's school system last June.

D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty is warning city council members against the transfer of funds from the public schools budget to the school modernization plan.

D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee has won new authority over the transfer of teachers at 23 schools slated to close this fall.

Family breakdown causes high levels of crime in D.C.

The vice president of D.C.’s teachers union has filed a lawsuit against the union president, other union leaders, the mayor and the schools chancellor, alleging that they have suppressed his legal right to speak out about schools reform.

The war between the charter school movement and D.C. public schools is over. Charters have won, if victory means that charter schools are thriving and here to stay. Fact is the nation’s capital has been a lab for charter schools, and the experiment is a success.

With just days left before the deadline, only 233 teachers in D.C. have signed paperwork accepting a highly controversial buyout deal offering bonuses of $1,000 to $20,000 to leave the historically underperforming school system.