Rachel Baye

Published: Mon, Mar 25, 2013

A group of Montgomery County lawmakers is worried that private donations for scoreboards, gardens and sound systems at public schools are unfair to students whose parents can't raise the same funds. In a letter to School Board President Christopher Barclay, the County Council's Education...

Rachel Baye

Published: Sun, Mar 24, 2013

The 24-year-old George Mason University graduate student, who studies the irradiation chemistry of planetary ices, has been wandering the District dressed like an astronaut. Why are you dressed like an astronaut? There is a competition ... sponsored by [Space Expedition Corp.], which is a...

Taylor Holland

Published: Sat, Mar 23, 2013

Fairfax County is looking for the $1.2 million it would need to expand preschool services to more than 800 children now on a waiting list without throwing the 2014 budget out of balance. There are 826 children waiting to get into the county's 1,864-seat Head Start program, which provides a...

Rachel Baye

Published: Sat, Mar 23, 2013

The Washington area's wealthy suburbs have seen a sharp rise in the portion of children receiving free, government-funded lunches over the last several years, an indication of rising poverty levels. In Fairfax County, the second-wealthiest county in the country, nearly 27 percent -- 47,874...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Fri, Mar 22, 2013

A boy has been arrested for having a BB gun at a Northeast D.C. school, police said. The student was found to have had the weapon in a bathroom at Noyes Education Campus in the 2700 block of 10th Street NE. He was arrested Thursday morning on a charge of possession of a BB gun, according to...

Matt Connolly

Published: Thu, Mar 21, 2013

A bill allowing Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker to take over the county school system moved from the Maryland House to the Senate on Thursday, bringing the controversial proposal one step closer to a final decision as the legislative session winds down. Under the proposal, the...

Rachel Baye

Published: Thu, Mar 21, 2013

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray appointed education consultant Abigail Smith as the District's new deputy mayor for education, the mayor announced Thursday. A resident of Ward 1, Smith is currently the board chairman at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School. She has previously served as a special...

Steve Contorno

Published: Wed, Mar 20, 2013

College tuition in Virginia jumped by 10 percent during Gov. Bob McDonnell's first two years in office, but the average tuition hike last year was about half that, 4.5 percent, the smallest increase in a decade. The smaller increases follow McDonnell's decision to make lower tuition costs a...

Andy Brownfield

Published: Wed, Mar 20, 2013

ANNAPOLIS -- Montgomery County educators urged a Maryland Senate panel on Wednesday to approve a measure that would delay the implementation of a new teacher evaluation system, unless Maryland first adopted a new standardized test. The bill would forbid the State Board of Education from...

Rachel Baye

Published: Mon, Mar 18, 2013

A new rule in St. Mary's County public elementary schools bans an adult from hugging any student other than his or her own son or daughter. The rule is one of several developed in the school system in the wake of recent episodes of school violence. But some critics say the hugging rule has...