Long known for being blunt in her assessments of D.C. public schools and education reform more broadly, Chancellor Michelle Rhee was surprisingly diplomatic in an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press today that dealt with the issue. more ›

If anyone who really dislikes mayoral control of city schools and Chancellor Michelle Rhee was expecting Vince Gray to abandon either of the two, they're bound to be disappointed by a detailed education platform the mayoral challenger rolls out today. more ›

D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee spent the last couple of days not responding to questions from reporters regarding her controversial comments to Fast Company magazine, but finally gave an exclusive interview to WRC/NBC4's Tom Sherwood late Monday. While she didn't name names, as D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray has been calling for her to do, she did offer some more specific numbers on the teachers she said were fired "who had hit children, who had had sex with children, who had missed 78 days of school."

She told us that one teacher had been on administrative leave for sexual misconduct and that the teacher had been fired as part of the budget purge. more ›

Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) may be a reliable Republican, but he's never made much noise when it comes to the District. That changed last week when he successfully added an amendment to legislation granting the District a voting seat in the House that would effectively gut the city's gun laws. While many a Republican before him have done the same -- Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) first among them -- it is his move that could end up sinking the measure. more ›