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June 18, 2013

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  • Lawmakers cut $16m from Malcolm X renovation

    By Rachel Baye | 05/09/13 07:25 PM

    A panel of D.C. lawmakers on Thursday voted to cut nearly $16 million from a proposed renovation of Malcolm X Elementary School, a move that schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson warned would be "detrimental" to the school's planned partnership with Achievement Preparatory Academy Public Charter...

  • DCPS school closings face challenge

    By Rachel Baye | 05/09/13 07:25 PM

    A lawsuit scheduled Friday for federal court will determine whether the District can close 15 public schools. The case argues that D.C. Public Schools' plan to close 13 schools in June and two more a year later disproportionately affects minorities, students with disabilities and students from...

  • More data on higher-education administrative bloat

    By Michael Barone | 05/09/13 02:35 PM

    In my Washington Examiner column yesterday I wrote about the bursting of the higher education bubble. Government student loan and grant programs have been pumping money into colleges and universities, which have been spending much of it on hiring new administrators. For some facts and...

  • Fairfax County teachers' raise cut in half

    By Rachel Baye | 05/08/13 05:25 PM

    Fairfax County Schools Superintendent Jack Dale is pulling back half of the raise he proposed for teachers after the cash-strapped county Board of Supervisors denied the school system $61.7 million of the $92.4 million budget increase it requested. Elimination of a 1 percent pay raise to keep...

  • Fairfax County schools superintendent Dale hospitalized

    By Rachel Baye | 05/08/13 11:40 AM

    Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Jack Dale has been hospitalized for a medical emergency, the school system said Wednesday. Dale, who plans to retire in June, was hospitalized late Tuesday afternoon. By the time of the announcement by School Board Chairman Ilryong Moon Wednesday...

  • D.C. summer school expanded in passage of $241m supplemental budget

    By Alan Blinder | 05/07/13 05:00 PM

    The D.C. Council backed a $241 million supplemental budget on Tuesday, opening up thousands of additional seats in summer school and funneling millions of dollars into housing initiatives. Lawmakers gave swift approval to the proposal from Mayor Vincent Gray, who submitted the supplemental...

  • Virginia mom accused of embezzling from school group

    By Scott McCabe | 05/07/13 03:05 PM

    A Prince William County woman is accused of stealing money from an elementary school parent-teacher organization. Sabrina Ann Corra-Reynolds, treasurer of the Glenkirk Elementary Parent Teacher Organization, was charged Monday with two counts of embezzlement. According to police,...

  • Jonetta Rose Barras: Curing the disease, not the symptoms

    By Jonetta Rose Barras | 05/06/13 07:50 PM

    That rumbling sound coming from the John A. Wilson Building is D.C. Council members tussling over recommended changes to Mayor Vincent Gray's $12 billion 2014 budget. Committees have begun reducing expenditures or searching for additional funds to address select programs or satisfy demands of...


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