While Frederick Douglass, the iconic 19th century civil rights leader, can claim such locales as the Eastern Shore, Baltimore, Bedford, Mass., and Rochester, N.Y., it is the District of Columbia where he made his greatest contributions as a free man and District residents are proud of that. “Frederick Douglass was a free accomplished African American,” […]
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Bible Way Temple’s Apostle Silver Remembered as ‘General of the Faith’
From lines of bishops in flowing red vestments to female church ushers dressed in crisped white uniforms, Bible Way Temple was packed with people to celebrate the life of Apostle James E. Silver who was eulogized as a “General of the faith.” In the 1920’s Apostle Smallwood E. Williams went from preaching at a fire […]
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DC Funeral Home Mulls Move to Maryland
For 30 years, Ronald Taylor II Funeral Homes in Northeast, D.C. has served a predominantly Black clientele, but as gentrification increasingly pushes Blacks out of the city and into Prince George’s County, Taylor is wondering if the business his father started should move there as well. The ongoing gentrification of D.C. has Ronald Taylor II […]
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Secret Audit Points to Enrollment Fraud at DC High School
A secret audit of an acclaimed D.C. high school hints at widespread enrollment fraud to avoid $12,000 more in tuition charged to nonresidents. Famed arts school Duke Ellington School of the Arts is under fire after wide spread enrollment fraud was revealed. (Courtesy photo) State Superintendent of Education Hanseul Kang told The Washington Post Tuesday the annual […]
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Why Public School Teachers, Administrators Cheat
Public schools in the nation’s capital recently reported that the graduation rate for 2017 was the highest in the school system’s history. According to school officials, about 73 percent of Washington public schools’ students graduated on time, another record high for a school system that had struggled years ago to graduate even half of its students. […]
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D.C. Councilmember Requests Deeper Probe on Heels of Graduation Crisis
The chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia’s Committee on Education is pushing Mayor Muriel Bowser to broaden the scope of an investigation that uncovered a high school graduation scandal to include public and charter elementary and middle schools as well as charter high schools. In a Feb. 21 letter, Councilmember David Grosso […]
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D.C. Kids Get Full Rides to College
Only about 17 percent of residents in Ward 7 have a bachelor’s degree or higher. The poverty level for children under 18 is 40 percent. The median household income in this majority-Black ward is about half the amount in Washington, D.C., and three-quarters of the amount in United States overall. But this economic environment didn’t […]
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Chancellor Wilson Ousted Following Revelations
Chancellor Antwan Wilson resigned from leading D.C. Public Schools on Feb. 20, after he was criticized for asking the city’s deputy mayor to transfer his daughter from one city school to another without following proper protocol. The day before his resignation, Wilson went on an attempted name-clearing media campaign, talking to various news outlets to […]
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NASA’S Alvin Drew Talks to Students About Space
Students at St. Anthony’s Catholic High School, located in the Brookland section of the District of Columbia recently got a double treat. On Feb. 15, students had the chance to talk to an astronaut and that man, Alvin Drew, is a 1977 alumnus of their institution. “I used to sit where you are now and […]
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Spotlight on Troubled D.C. School System
Ward 8 Democrats agreed at a panel on educational deficiencies in the District, that the schools in the ward and all of D.C. are lacking and something must be done now. On Feb. 17, the Ward 8 Democrats held a panel discussion “I Believe the Children Are the Future? A Discussion on the State of […]
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Peggy Cooper Cafritz, Patron of Washington Arts and Education, Dies at 70
Washingtonians are mourning the loss of Peggy Cooper Cafritz, a prominent philanthropist, art collector, activist, and arts education figure who helped found the famed high school, Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Cafritz, 70, died Feb. 18 at a local hospital. The Washington Post reported that she died after suffering complications from pneumonia. Peggy Cooper Cafritz, […]
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Trump Budget Threatens to Cut D.C. Student Funding
In a budget the Trump administration deemed “efficient, effective, accountable,” thousands of D.C. students face the risk of losing significant financial aid to attend college. The Fiscal Year 2019 Budget Request to Congress included the elimination of the DC Tuition Assistance Grant (DCTAG). Mayor Muriel Bowser launched #SaveDCTAG as a way to preserve the District’s grant […]
