Cleaning Up in the Name of D.C.'s Schools- March 31, 2007 "I just wanted to make sure you heard the news that is not making the news that two people were shot just a few blocks from J.C. Nalle elementary school last night. The first happened late in the afternoon Wednesday while children were playing across the street in Benning Terrace, and the man collapsed and died on the steps of Jones Memorial Church. The children at our school told me about seeing the bullet holes in his chest and head and seeing the helicopter take the man away."http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401680_xml/~3/24... A History Lesson for Mayor Fenty- March 24, 2007 The extraordinary $122 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help prepare and send to college more than 2,000 youths in the District's poorest wards could, if those goals are achieved, transform the city's future economic and social landscape.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401680_xml/~3/24... Tattered Values and Broken Schools- March 17, 2007 Overshadowed by this week's huge national news stories were two local developments worth noting. First, there was the incident outside Coolidge Senior High School on Tuesday. Second is the information I received on the D.C. school maintenance problem.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401680_xml/~3/24... Appalachia Helps Where D.C. Fails- March 10, 2007 Unlike many college students who spend their spring break partying, about a dozen students from Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., are going to seize the "chance to give back to the community," according to a news release from the D.C.-based National Center for Children and Families.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401680_xml/~3/24... Who Left D.C.'s Schools to Decay- March 3, 2007 I got more than I bargained for this week when I went to Shepherd Elementary School in upper Northwest Washington to moderate the Ward 4 Candidates Issues Forum sponsored by the Ward 4 Democrats and the Shepherd Park Citizens Association. After the forum, I sought the nearest restroom and was directed to the boys' bathroom adjacent to the school's auditorium.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401680_xml/~3/24... |