The bill would require D.C. schools to provide at-home or at-hospital instruction to students who are recovering from childbirth or have pre-birth complications.
Students from across the city gave speeches on issues affecting young people, including mental health, gender affirming care, and racism.
Negotiations have been at an impasse for three years.
D.C. has already delayed enforcement of the vaccine mandate until January, but the Republican senators say it is “racist” and “highly politicized” and should be repealed altogether.
Young journalist Tamia Robinson interviewed youth and adults about their mental health, and what resources are available to people in need.
In a video that’s now gone viral, the former first lady surprised Randle Highlands Elementary School in Southeast with $100,000 from Ellen Degeneres, Apple iPads, and a new basketball court.
Adam Tenner, Executive Director of Metro Teen AIDS, is calling for more transparency in D.C. school’s health and sex education tests.
D.C. fared very well in the Nation’s Report Card, released today, but there’s still a significant achievement gap among demographics.
Photo used under a Creative Commons license with dbking.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. During a busy week for education news — there was Monday’s forum that Mayor Adrian Fenty opted out of it, and Rhee’s comments yesterday hinting that she’d…
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…