Four of the five schools were cleared as safe, with no hazardous material found.

D.C. officials also said that school kids will again have to return negative COVID-19 tests ahead of returning to classes after a winter break in February and spring break in April.

Lawmakers want to make it easier for D.C. students to opt for remote learning, but Mayor Muriel Bowser says it kids do better when they’re learning in person.

Kids who are homeless, in foster care, or receiving certain government benefits will get a boost in the admissions lottery for the schools.

The District, which educates nearly 95,000 public schoolchildren, does not have a centralized system that records basic transcript information, such as grades and the courses a student has taken. That can make it challenging for families to keep track of classes a student needs to graduate high school.

Nonprofit Serve Your City and the Ward 6 Mutual Aid Network are teaming up to make sure students are equipped for remote learning amid the pandemic.

“I have always lived my professional life in chapters, and this has been the longest one yet.”

This is the first decline in enrollment for charter schools since they were established in D.C. in 1996.

It is the second unionization attempt by charter school teachers in the District over the past two years.

César Chávez PCS for Public Policy (Prep) Middle School found out Wednesday night that their school would be closing in June.