“Metro has to face reality when it comes to what the region says it can afford and direct those resources to best serve the riders we have today,” Paul Wiedefeld said.
This includes staff positions that are redundant or “no longer deemed critical to Metro’s business interests,” Paul Wiedefeld says.
D.C. City Administrator Allen Lew today dismissed Christophe Tulou, the director of the D.C. Department of Environment.
Big education news this afternoon: the District of Columbia has sent separation notices to 413 teachers this year, 309 of which will be terminated from their jobs at the city’s public schools due to poor evaluation scores.
It’s been a whirlwind day for local government. In case you’ve been away from your desk all day, we threw together this little timeline with Storify to get you all caught up on everything Sulaimon Brown.
Michelle Rhee spent about thirty minutes chatting with Bruce DePuyt this morning on the NewsChannel 8 anchor’s NewsTalk program — and understandably, she spent most of her time defending the IMPACT evaluation system, the results of which were responsible for the termination of hundreds of DCPS teachers last Friday. “For me, it’s really a matter of thinking about the children,” said Rhee, who was sure to mention several times that she has two children…
The Metrorail operator who was involved in the pocket track derailment at the Farragut North station on Feb. 12 has been fired, WMATA officials announced today. Metro declined to name the operator, but identified her as a woman who has been an employee with the transit agency since 1976, and a rail operator since April 1999. She was fired on March 11 “for failing to follow standard operating procedures,” according to a statement….
Brian K. Johnson We mentioned Montgomery College President Brian K. Johnson’s troubles in yesterday’s roundup, and now today comes word that Johnson has been fired by the school’s Board of Trustees. Here’s the statement from the board: “We, as a Board, have decided to make a change in the leadership of the College. The Board voted not to renew Dr. Johnson’s contract. We also voted to place Dr. Johnson on administrative leave, with pay,…
As we mentioned at the end of the day yesterday, Acting D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles has fired Alan Morrison, the lawyer who had been preparing to defend the District’s handgun ban before the Supreme Court in March. The timing of this move leads to all manner of questions about how seriously the Fenty administration actually takes this Supreme Court case, and whether the Mayor and the Acting AG are capable of putting important legal…
