Teachers, Authors, and Musicians comment on images and quotes during the Gallery Walk at the Teach the Beat: Go-Go in DC (Feb. 16) seminar co-hosted by Teaching for Change, DC Public Schools, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the authors of The...
President Barack Obama may have ruffled a few feathers when he answered a question on NBC's "Today Show" about why he did not send his daughters to DC Public Schools, a place where he lives. FLORIDA WOMAN QUESTION: "I wanted to know whether or not you think...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - More than 100 students, parents and teachers marched in protest outside McKinley Technical High School in Northeast D.C. on Monday morning. The group remains upset over the firing of more than 200 teachers last Friday. Now, D.C. City Councilmember Marion Barry is calling...
Washington, DC - The dust has cleared and the tear gas cleared away, after an angry confrontation between students and police at McKinley Tech High school. But some of the riffed school employees cleaning out their desks are vowing to take legal action and continue...
WASHINGTON - Some Washington school teachers headed back to their class rooms for the last time over the weekend. Teachers who were laid off Friday were told they could come back to school Saturday to clean out their classrooms and offices. But at McKinley Tech arriving...
The security company that provided about 300 guards to D.C. schools went bankrupt Thursday night, disrupting the beginning of classes across the city. Schools spokeswoman Jennifer Calloway confirmed widespread reports that guards employed by company Hawk One Security did not appear for work Friday morning. "They...