Teachers say they need a new contract to help retain teachers, address safety issues, and improve diversity in staffing.

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

In recent months, disagreements within the D.C. union have led to clashes and personal attacks in Zoom meetings.

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

A labor board ruled that DCPS did not properly negotiate with the teachers’ union over educators returning to schools for in-person instruction, potentially imperiling a D.C. plan to bring up to 21,000 elementary students back in early November.

The tentative contract gives D.C. Public Schools teachers a nine percent raise over three years.

But DCPS has left the bargaining table.

Former Mayor Adrian Fenty has plenty to say about unions across the country, but he won’t say anything about the political scandals roiling D.C.

D.C. teachers have been asked to wear red today in solidarity with striking educators in Chicago.

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.