Rachel Baye

Updated: Mon, Apr 29, 2013

The District spent more on each of its preschool students than any state in the country last school year, according to a report released Monday. Schools receive $14,938 for each pre-kindergarten student, including $13,974 from the District and $964 from the federal government, according to the...

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...

Rachel Baye

Published: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

Fairfax County's elite Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology dropped from second place to fourth in U.S. News and World Report's annual ranking of the nation's best high schools. Second place is now occupied by BASIS Tucson, in Tucson, Ariz., a branch of a charter school that...

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...

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...

Scott McCabe

Published: Mon, Apr 22, 2013

Eric Toth, the elite D.C. private school teacher who replaced Osama bin Laden on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, has been captured in Central America, according to federal law enforcement sources. Toth was taken into custody Saturday in Esteli, Nicaragua, near the Honduran border,...

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...

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...

Kate Jacobson

Updated: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

Montgomery County lawmakers said they won't give the public schools more resource police officers until school officials create a concrete plan on how they would be used. County Executive Ike Leggett has proposed adding six more school officers in his fiscal 2014 budget, which would double the...

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...