Rachel Baye

Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

The District's public charter schools saw a nearly 50 percent increase in the number of children on schools' waitlists this year, with roughly 22,000 students vying for seats, the Public Charter School Board announced Thursday. By comparison, the same waitlists had roughly 15,000 names last...

Jonetta Rose Barras

Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013

When this whole education reform thing started in D.C., there was talk about putting children first. District officials, including then-Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and DC Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, advocated for extended instructional days and year-round schooling. Those changes would...

Eric P. Newcomer

Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

The District hopes to join the tide of left-leaning states, which now includes neighboring Maryland, that offer driver's licenses to those who can't show they're in the United States legally. In front of a standing-room-only crowd Thursday, Mayor Vincent Gray called the bill "historic...

Alan Blinder

Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

In its first public sanctioning of a District lawmaker, the city's ethics board admonished D.C. Councilman Vincent Orange on Thursday for intervening when health regulators tried to close a rat-infested warehouse owned by a campaign contributor. "His intention was to provide good constituent...

Alan Blinder

Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

It probably won't move Congress, but the Hawaii Legislature has declared it wants the District to have a vote on Capitol Hill. "Members of the 113th United States Congress are urged to enact federal legislation or propose a constitutional amendment granting full voting rights to residents of...

Matt Connolly

Updated: Wed, May 1, 2013

More than half of new D.C. mothers are unmarried, more than any state in the nation, according to census data released Wednesday. Nearly 51 percent of women in the District between the ages of 15 and 50 who gave birth in the past year did so without being married, just beating out Louisiana at...

Alan Blinder

Updated: Wed, May 1, 2013

In a move that his administration is already declaring "trailblazing," D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray will propose on Thursday allowing illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses and identification cards. "If the mayor's bill becomes law, all eligible residents -- documented or not -- will have...

Eric P. Newcomer

Updated: Wed, May 1, 2013

Mayor Vincent Gray on Wednesday gave the public its first peek at the District's 157-passenger streetcar, scheduled to be in service by the end of the year, but said he doesn't know how much the 37-mile project will end up costing D.C. taxpayers. "I don't think we can, with precision, say how...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

A Fort Washington man was convicted in the beating and robbery of a young Capitol Hill father, officials said. Tommy Branch was found guilty Wednesday in D.C. Superior Court of the attack on Thomas "TC" Maslin. In August 2012, Maslin was assaulted and robbed after he attended a Washington...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

The man at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court decision about GPS tracking pleaded guilty to a drug-conspiracy charge Wednesday and was sentenced to a 15-year prison term. The resolution to Antoine Jones' case comes after he was tried three times in D.C. federal court. Jones has been behind...