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  • W.T. Woodson High School roiled by three student deaths this year

    Rachel Baye

    Published: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

    W.T. Woodson High School in Fairfax was rocked this week by its third student death of the year in what appears to be a suicide. The 17-year-old junior was found lying on a parking deck at the Northern Virginia Community College's Annandale Campus on Tuesday night, according to Officer Don...

  • Report claims Rhee's reforms harmed D.C. schools

    Rachel Baye

    Published: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

    Many of the reforms instituted under former DC Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee and continued under Chancellor Kaya Henderson have done more harm than good for the school system, according to a new report. Under Rhee's leadership, achievement gaps grew, test scores showed little...

  • Evidence of widespread cheating leads to probe at D.C. charter school

    Rachel Baye

    Published: Mon, Apr 22, 2013

    Meridian Public Charter School has begun an internal investigation into cheating on standardized tests after a District investigation found "strong circumstantial evidence" that cheating efforts were orchestrated throughout the school, officials announced Monday. Standardized tests across the...

  • Mongomery County lawmakers: Teacher raises won't narrow student achievement gap

    Rachel Baye

    Published: Sun, Apr 21, 2013

    Montgomery County lawmakers say the county school system should spend more of its limited funds to close a troubling gap between white and Asian students and their black and Latino counterparts. Of MCPS' proposed $2.1 billion fiscal 2014 operating budget, only 0.1 percent is dedicated to...

  • Overtures and arias for Montgomery County third-graders

    Rachel Baye

    Published: Sun, Apr 21, 2013

    With two and a half weeks before opening night, the Fire Starters Opera Company was finishing costumes and sets, rehearsing arias and making sure mailers went out -- and that was just before recess. Mary Ruth McGinn's 19 third-grade students at Stedwick Elementary School in Montgomery Village...

  • D.C. rolls out new security measures for standardized tests

    Rachel Baye

    Published: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

    D.C. teachers will not supervise standardized testing in their own classrooms during this year's testing period in an effort to reduce their chances of tampering with students' answers, DC Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson announced Thursday. The tests will be sealed, and teachers will...

  • D.C. Council, residents criticize school-funding formula

    Rachel Baye

    Updated: Wed, Apr 17, 2013

    The District's funding of schools based on the number of students they enroll is flawed, D.C. Council Education Committee Chairman David Catania said Wednesday. All of the city's public schools, both in DC Public Schools and the charter schools, receive money through a formula that is based on...

  • Students leaving mid-year raise questions for charter school

    Rachel Baye

    Updated: Tue, Apr 16, 2013

    D.C. charter board staff are recommending that Basis Public Charter School should not be allowed to add 35 seats next year because a large number of students are leaving in the middle of the school year. The Ward 2 school, which opened this year, is currently allowed to enroll up to 468...

  • 11 campuses seek enrollment boosts

    Rachel Baye

    Updated: Tue, Apr 16, 2013

    Just over 3 percent of applicants got into Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School this year, making the D.C. elementary and middle school more selective than Harvard University. E.L. Haynes Public Charter School is slightly more competitive than Columbia University. The...


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