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...

April Burbank

Updated: Wed, Apr 17, 2013

The District's charter schools received about $13,000 less in funding per student in fiscal 2011 than traditional public schools, according to a reportreleased Wednesday bythe Walton Family Foundation. The foundation is a philanthropic nonprofit that supports education reform and is a donor to...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Wed, Apr 17, 2013

The University of Virginia's website was hacked Monday night, The Daily Progress in Charlottesville reported. People who were trying to access the university's homepage at that time saw a hacking group's logo instead. A group called Root The Box has claimed that it is behind the incident and...

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...

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...

Rachel Baye

Updated: Mon, Apr 15, 2013

NASA has stopped sending shuttles into space, but D.C. students soon may get their chance to experience life among the stars. D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray plans to open a space education center, featuring a space station simulator, in the DC Public Schools system, he revealed in his fiscal 2014...

Rachel Baye

Published: Fri, Apr 12, 2013

The District is invalidating standardized test scores of 18 testing groups at 11 schools after "serious test security violations" were discovered, signifying that cheating likely occurred at the schools, officials announced Friday. The D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education hired...

Steve Contorno

Updated: Thu, Apr 11, 2013

Virginia Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli skipped an invitation Thursday to meet with the state's largest teachers union to appear instead in front of an anti-abortion summit in Washington that's being organized by his largest campaign contributor....

Rachel Baye

Published: Wed, Apr 10, 2013

The Fairfax County School Board chose Karen Garza, the current schools chief in Lubbock, Texas, and former second in command in Houston, as its new superintendent, the school system announced Wednesday. The School Board unanimously chose Garza out of 47 candidates -- 19 of whom interviewed...

Rachel Baye

Published: Wed, Apr 10, 2013

D.C. Council Education Committee Chairman David Catania questioned Mayor Vincent Gray's proposal to add 132 jobs to the city's public libraries while cutting full-time librarians from more than a dozen public schools. Gray proposed adding $10 million to the D.C. Public Library's budget,...