washingtonpost.com - DistrictDistrictAdvice, Fear at D.C. Stadium Session- April 24, 2005 In one corner of the room, citizens made suggestions about how the District's new baseball stadium should look. On the opposite side, residents of Southwest and Southeast Washington expressed fears about parking and traffic.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12602-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_education/dc D.C. Voucher Lottery Gets Stronger Response- April 24, 2005 A lottery for D.C. students seeking federal vouchers to attend private schools Friday yielded nearly two applicants for each available slot, with most students currently enrolled in low-performing schools.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57562-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_education/dc 15-Year-Old Charged in Charter School Arson- April 24, 2005 A 15-year-old student was arrested yesterday and charged as a juvenile in the first of two arsons that badly damaged a Northeast Washington charter school in December, officials said.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7958-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_education/dc 25% of City Teachers Short on Credentials, Janey Says- April 24, 2005 More than a quarter of D.C. school system teachers lack required certification, and 25 to 40 percent of its principals "are not the caliber they need to be," School Superintendent Clifford B. Janey said yesterday.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26352-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_education/dc Williams Questions 'Energy' for 3rd Term- April 24, 2005 Politically battered after nearly 10 years in District government, D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams said yesterday that he might not have "the energy, the tenacity, the discipline, the focus" to serve as mayor of the nation's capital for a third term.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6004-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_education/dc D.C. Schools May Cut Jobs of Teachers, Staff- April 24, 2005 Principals at public schools in the District have identified 395 positions that they may have to cut to pay for teachers' raises anticipated in next year's budget.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51224-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_education/dc Janey Lists 16 Sites for Lease Plan- April 24, 2005 School Superintendent Clifford B. Janey issued a report to the D.C. Board of Education yesterday listing 16 underused schools that are candidates for sharing space with charter schools.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6013-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_education/dc Cultivating Kindness Toward Animals- April 24, 2005 Jennifer Alfonso walked down the hallway at Harriet Tubman Elementary School in Columbia Heights, creating a small stir as she went.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31191-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_education/dc A D.C. Teacher's Day in the Rose Garden- April 24, 2005 The sixth-graders were hunched over their desks behind the metal-screened windows of the middle school -- still digesting the difference between similes and metaphors -- as the limousine carrying their school's best teacher pulled up to the northwest gate of the White House yesterday.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6009-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_education/dc Diverse U.S. Throngs Mourn Leader, While Thoughts Turn to His Successor- April 24, 2005 Mexican Americans at church in San Antonio remembered his 1987 visit as they cried at their loss. Black worshipers in Southeast Washington recalled the papal trip to the nation's capital in 1979 and celebrated his life with gospel hymns. And at a downtown D.C. cathedral, a Polish American paid quiet tribute to the Pole born in 1920 who rose to head the worldwide Roman Catholic Church.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23171-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_education/dc |