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Study: Charter scores up, DCPS' down in math, reading
Rachel Baye
Updated: Wed, Mar 13, 2013
Test scores in math and reading dropped in DC Public Schools between 2008 and 2012, while they improved in public charter schools, according to a study released Wednesday. Using the median school's performance to determine a "typical" school, the study by the DC Fiscal Policy Institute found...
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Maryland gets $6.8m from feds to boost failing schools
Rachel Baye
Published: Tue, Mar 12, 2013
Maryland will receive $6.8 million from the federal government to help efforts to improve its lowest-performing schools, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced. The state is one of 11 receiving funds through the latest round of School Improvement Grants. "When schools fail, our...
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Georgetown, George Washington slip in law school rankings
Rachel Baye
Updated: Tue, Mar 12, 2013
Georgetown University and the George Washington University's law schools each fell one spot in the U.S. News and World Report's rankings of Best Graduate Schools released Tuesday after the publication changed the way it counts some graduates' jobs. In the new rankings, the schools are now...
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Montgomery County police get pay raise
Rachel Baye
Published: Mon, Mar 11, 2013
Police in Montgomery County will get a 2.1 percent pay raise, their first in four years, the county police union announced Monday. Under a newly ratified agreement, all members of the Fraternal Order of Police will receive the raise July 1, the beginning of the county's fiscal year. Union...
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IG asked to investigate DC principal's effort to hire his wife
Rachel Baye
Updated: Mon, Mar 11, 2013
A community leader in the District's West End and Foggy Bottom neighborhoods has asked the city to investigate whether the principal at School Without Walls High School broke the law by trying to hire his wife as an assistant principal. Principal Richard Trogisch told D.C. Public Schools that...
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GW law school pays for temp jobs for unemployed grads
Rachel Baye
Updated: Mon, Mar 11, 2013
Practice criticized as way to boost national ranking The George Washington University Law School has started paying graduates to work in temporary jobs as more of them can't find work, but the program is coming under fire as a way to inflate the school's national ranking. Created two years...
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35% of Gates Foundation scholarships go to Friendship Charter students
Rachel Baye
Updated: Mon, Mar 11, 2013
More than 300 District public school students have received full college scholarships for next year through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Of the 316 scholarships awarded, more than a third -- 111 -- went to students at Friendship Collegiate Public Charter School, Dan Cronin, a...
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Dean tried to cut back GW law program
Rachel Baye
Published: Sun, Mar 10, 2013
The former dean of the George Washington University Law School tried to scale back the Pathways to Practice Fellowship Program last year following reports that recent graduates were leaning a little too heavily on the program. In June 2012, Paul Berman warned program participants that he would...
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