“We’ve created the conditions for confusion,” said one Board member. “Earning the [public] trust back is absolutely essential.”

Lewis died last week at the age of 80 after a lifetime spent championing civil rights.

The Prince George’s County Board of Education wants to claim ownership of just about everything created by staff and students.

The D.C. State Board of Education will reportedly hold a hearing on April 6 to address allegations that officials at Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus may have tampered with standardized test scores to boost performance ratings. USA Today, who published the investigative report regarding “extraordinarily high numbers of erasures on standardized tests,” including a pattern where “wrong answers were erased and changed to right ones,” reports today that the Board will request a report of a DCPS investigation into such claims in 2009.

A vigil will be held outside of George Washington University Hospital this evening for William Lockridge, the District 4 Member of the D.C. State Board of Education, who was hospitalized over the weekend after suffering a stroke. Lockridge, who has served at nearly every conceivable level of local governance in the District, was rushed to the hospital on Friday and remains in the intensive care unit.