MAR. 1: Parents await answers on D.C. schools cheating case

GREG TOPPO AND MARISOL BELLO, USA TODAY | LINK TO ARTICLE

Almost a year after the District of Columbia began investigating schools for possible cheating on standardized tests, parents are still waiting for the findings, but the school system's leader says there was no widespread cheating.

FEB. 23: DCPS seeks authority to create charter schools

LISA GARTNER, WASHINGTON EXAMINER | LINK TO ARTICLE

D.C. Public Schools is pursuing the authority to create charter schools and turn existing schools into charters, the schools chancellor said Thursday.

FEB. 23: D.C. mayor, schools chief discuss plan to restore city power to create charters

BILL TURQUE, THE WASHINGTON POST | LINK TO ARTICLE

Mayor Vincent C. Gray and Chancellor Kaya Henderson are discussing a plan to restore the District’s power to create public charter schools as part of an effort to raise the quality of education in low-income communities.

FEB. 6: A grim report card on D.C. schools

EDITORIAL BOARD, THE WASHINGTON POST | LINK TO ARTICLE

A New Study of the District’s public schools has the teachers union bristling about jobs, defenders of traditional schools fearing further gains for charter schools and some neighborhoods worrying their schools will close.

LISA GARTNER, WASHINGTON EXAMINER | LINK TO ARTICLE

Parents, students and school officials voiced their support for legislation that would keep District schools open after-hours to provide medical services and learning opportunities to the surrounding low-income communities.

JAN 31: DCPS schools to become charters? Union sounds off

LISA GARTNER, WASHINGTON EXAMINER | LINK TO ARTICLE
 
Last week, D.C.'s deputy mayor for education released a report recommending that three dozen D.C. Public Schools campuses be closed or turned around, likely reinvented as charter schools.

JAN 31: IFF study of D.C. schools: The pushback begins

BILL TURQUE, THE WASHINGTON POST | LINK TO ARTICLE

Deputy Mayor for Education De’Shawn Wright has encountered some sharply negative responses to the IFF study of school capacity in the nation’s capital.

MATT ACKLAND, FOX5 | LINK TO ARTICLE

Money talks but will it help D.C. schools? That is the focus of a public hearing to improve some of the city's lowest performing schools.

JAN 19: WTU Recovers Teacher Annuity Fund

 STAFF REPORT, WASHINGTON INFORMER | LINK TO ARTICLE

The Washington Teachers' Union (WTU) has recovered a $1.2 million Teacher Annuity and Aid Distribution Fund that was originally established in 1894 exclusively for white teachers.

JAN 14: Pay hike keeping teach  on the job

RICH SHAPIRO, NY DAILY NEWS | LINK TO ARTICLE

Washington, D.C., public school teacher Tiffany Johnson is a “highly effective” educator — and saw her pay jump to $87,000 from $63,000 this past year as a result.