Category: Washington D.C. News

When it comes to accounting for the performance of District of Columbia Public Schools, Chancellor Michelle Rhee officially reports to the mayor. But that was hardly the case earlier this week as she patiently acquiesced to the City Council members, who pummeled her in an hours-long hearing about the state of the city’s 123 schools. […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of Ward 8 residents have joined forces with Councilman Marion Barry in denouncing the stalled renovations of three schools that have been closed since 2008. According to Barry who convened a press conference Tuesday at Anita J. Turner Elementary School in Southeast Washington, parents and community stakeholders are upset over […]

The second annual DC-CAPital Stars Talent Competition and Night of DC-CAPital Stars Gala drew more than 400 persons to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on March 8. The show kicked off with a tribute to Michael Jackson featuring a medley of song and dance featuring the DC-CAPital Stars Talent Competition semi-finalists.?Then […]

Mahogany Woodland is a young Prince George’s County native and a person of many talents.  She’s a teacher, has her postgraduate degree and now can add author to her list of titles. Woodland’s first book, Freshman Honeys was recently released.  It is a book that, while fiction, definitely has some hints of things she and […]

In the wake District of Columbia Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s startling revelation late last year that she’d fired  teachers for having sex with students, Councilman Kwame Brown has proposed a bill that would make it a criminal offense for a public school teacher to become sexually involved with a student –  regardless of the pupil’s […]

While the scarcity of jobs has posed a big problem for the economy as a whole, it has been even worse in Washington, D.C., where the unemployment rate currently hovers around 12 percent. And for the city’s youth, who are often overlooked in favor of older, experienced workers, the statistics are even more devastating. Officials […]

LAUREL – The condition of the Thomas J.S. Waxter Center for female juvenile offenders is so bad that Department of Juvenile Services Secretary Donald DeVore told Capital News Service during a tour last week that the facility recently stopped accepting girls into its high-security program. Also, several girls who have lived at Waxter reported through […]

(March 17, 2010) – Nearly 150 D.C. students, parents and school faculty embarked on the annual College Round-Up in Tarboro, N.C., led by Councilmember Kwame R. Brown. This marks the third year that Brown has escorted D.C. high school students to the event, where many students received on-the-spot offers from many Historically Black Colleges and […]

(March 17, 2010) – Mahogany Woodland is a young Prince George’s County native and a person of many talents. She’s a teacher, has her postgraduate degree and now can add author to her list of titles. Woodland’s first book, Freshman Honeys was recently released. It is a book that, while fiction, definitely has some hints […]

(March 10, 2010) – Myths and falsehoods about the census have long played a role in people’s reluctance to participate. But with questionnaires for the decennial survey about to go out in the mail, U. S. Census Bureau officials remain focused on getting the word out that the March 15 count will be legitimate. They […]

(March 10, 2010) – With the tax filing season in full swing, things can become quite hectic for the 300,000 taxpayers expected to complete a return this year with the District Office of Tax and Revenue (OTR). And, rushing to get the job done in anticipation of a timely refund can result in a variety […]

Myths and falsehoods about the census have long played a role in people’s reluctance to participate. But with questionnaires for the decennial survey about to go out in the mail, U. S. Census Bureau officials remain focused on getting the word out that the March 15 count will be legitimate. They are also emphasizing that […]