Due to a nursing shortage, school nurses will work under a new “cluster” model, serving multiple schools. DC Health says it’s a necessary short-term solution.

School districts with the highest portion of students experiencing homelessness often don’t receive part of a grant set aside to help them.

Officials say the number of students enrolled at D.C. public and charter schools has hit a 15-year high since counting began in 2007.

“I teared up the first time they had their instruments in their hands a couple of weeks ago,” says the cellist, at one of her first in-person orchestra classes at KIPP DC Northeast Academy in more than a year.

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.

Most students in the Washington region have not set foot in a physical classroom since March. But about a dozen D.C. charter schools are offering some form of in-person instruction.

D.C. has made some headway in reaching students, registering more than 7,250 students in a six-day period beginning Sept. 10.

It’s D.C. College Application and Exploration Month.

How much do D.C. public school students know about health, nutrition, physical education, disease prevention, and sex? More than they know about math and reading, according to the results of a new test.