The school board for Virginia’s largest school system voted late last night to grant 28,000 employees the right to collectively bargain.

Dozens of educators offered testimony to the D.C. Council on the city’s high rates of teacher turnover.

In D.C., challenges with teacher turnover long predated the pandemic.

For four months in 2020 Michael Redmond allegedly worked as an assistant principal at Kramer Middle School in D.C. and as a principal at a high school in Providence, Rhode Island.

Keishia Thorpe from the International High School at Langley Park hopes to use her prize money to help refugee and immigrant students get college scholarships.

Elizabeth Davis, who has led the teachers’ union since 2013, was remembered as a tireless advocate for D.C. Public Schools.

“It makes us educators think, ‘What are we doing? Are we doing enough? Systemic inequity—is it something we can combat as teachers?’ ”

A document titled “Preparing to Discuss Race and Police Violence in the Classroom” outlines 10 recommendations.

But DCPS has left the bargaining table.

Nominate someone through May 30.