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Fenty aides bypass hearing on schools, vexing D.C. Council
- The D.C. Council, a week away from its summer recess, is still lacking critical information about expensive school modernization plans, infuriating members who assert the Fenty administration is fixing education facilities slapdash.
Violence continues to plague D.C. schools, monitor reports
- Violence against city schoolchildren continues to bedevil D.C. parents, a top school monitor has reported.
Test scores up, but most students still lack basics
- D.C. Public School students showed significant gains in both reading and math test scores this year, though still less than half of all elementary and secondary students are proficient in the basics, according to preliminary figures released Wednesday.
Donations to schools vary greatly by districts
- Schools and districts around the D.C. area rely on millions of dollars each year from private donors to finance building renovations, field trips and scholarships, but as wealthy areas receive small fortunes, others see much less.
- Schools and districts around the D.C. area rely on millions of dollars each year from private donors to finance building renovations, field trips and scholarships, but as wealthy areas receive small fortunes, others see much less.
D.C. schools crack down on enrollment
- D.C. school officials may soon be making house calls.
Area schools officials gird for tightened 2010 budgets
- With a bruising 2009 budget season barely behind them, school officials around the Washington region are spending their summers bracing for 2010 numbers that could put even more jobs on the line and more students at risk of larger classes and fewer special programs.
Scathing report blasts D.C. schools
- D.C. Public School officials spent $4.5 million in federal grants they weren’t entitled to, mismanaged the multimillion-dollar payroll system, lost track of tens of millions more in payments to outside vendors and broke rules on tracking the public’s money, a scathing audit has concluded.
Replacement windows cost school $6,300 each
- Nearly 150 windows installed last year in Northwest’s Shepherd Elementary School will be replaced this summer at a cost of roughly $6,300 each, and parents are hopeful the District’s new contractor will be an improvement over the last “catastrophe.”
- Nearly 150 windows installed last year in Northwest’s Shepherd Elementary School will be replaced this summer at a cost of roughly $6,300 each, and parents are hopeful the District’s new contractor will be an improvement over the last “catastrophe.”
Catholic schools to benefit from charter rentals
- Cash-strapped D.C. Catholic schools will get an infusion of millions of taxpayer dollars over the next three years from a lease arrangement involving schools that are converting to public charters, The Examiner has learned.
High-school students catapult careers in U of M engineering contest
- Catapults will sling and hackeysacks will soar this afternoon as the University of Maryland hosts a national engineering design competition focused on attracting high-school aged minorities to the growing profession.
House bill would give D.C. sole control of charter schools
- D.C. government leaders would have total control over choosing the leadership of D.C.’s growing public charter schools movement, under a bill introduced by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton on Thursday.
Proposed D.C. tutoring policy would require proof of progress
- D.C.’s State Board of Education today will vote on proposed standards for a federally funded tutoring program that’s designed to make up for schools’ deficiencies in teaching students.
Voucher program not boosting scores
- Two years into a controversial school-choice voucher program in D.C., research released Monday shows no difference in test scores between scholarship recipients and students not participating in the program.