Montgomery County Health Officer Travis Gayles issued a new order prohibiting private schools from opening for in-person classes before Oct. 1.

A popular program that allows D.C. public school students to receive tuition for private school education has had its funding cut under President Obama’s 2013 budget.

Mayor Adrian Fenty will continue to send his children to a private school in the District this year, reports the Examiner. Unlike Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee and Deputy Mayor for Education Victor Reinoso, who have both enrolled their children at one of the District’s best public elementary schools, the Mayor and his wife have chosen to send their seven year-old twins to another year at the private school they have attended since preschool. The mayor…

Watch where you step this morning, Washington! The Examiner brings us word that the D.C. Emergency Management Agency lists manhole cover explosions, like the one that brough traffic to a standstill around the National Mall last Wednesday, as one of the District’s 18 major hazards, alongside urban crime, hurricanes, terrorism and floods. See, D.C. has the second–largest underground power system in the country, which means underground fires which can cause those manholes to explode are…

As Adrian Fenty spends the day getting elected, we’re reminded that he’ll be seeing some serious dosh soon. Last month, Mayor Williams proposed legislation that would give his successor a 32% pay raise. He cited the discrepancy in the administrative pay scale in which some of the Mayor’s aides make more than the actual top dog. So today DCist asks: How will he be using his $200,000? (Also, does he remember that fiver we loaned…

We have a problem. An untraditional addiction, really. We ride the snake every Saturday morning at 10 — and we mean every Saturday morning at 10 — with our man Mac McGarry. We turn on NBC4 and crash “It’s Academic” — the longest-running pharm party of the mind on television. And this Saturday, Mr. McGarry is hosting two of the year’s dopest quiz show bashes with the Washington-area final at 10 a.m. and the regional…

The picture above may say it all. They were on the National Mall. They were on the Tidal Basin. Their cars clogged our roads, their baby strollers and large extended families crowded our Metro. They were everywhere. Tourist season has begun, bringing with it the obvious advantage of their disposable income and the just-as-obvious disadvantage of their indisputable presence. As long as they stand right and walk left on Metro escalators, we’re guessing a…