WASHINGTON INFORMER: After what has been a violent summer, thousands of District public school students returned to school this week. On Monday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) made the rounds at a couple of public schools […]
WASHINGTON INFORMER: With an important basketball tournament on the horizon, the members of Roosevelt Senior High School’s boys varsity basketball team are maintaining a training regimen that keeps them in the gym at 4301 13th […]
WASHINGTON INFORMER: Local street vendors celebrated a victory last week with the passage of the Street Vendor Advancement Amendment Act, which decriminalizes street vending, sets up vending zones and spaces and streamlines a licensing process that […]
WASHINGTON INFORMER: The Senate overwhelmingly approved a measure blocking the Revised Criminal Code Act (RCCA). That measure will go before President Joe Biden (D), who said he wouldn’t veto it. While some District residents lamented the […]
WASHINGTON INFORMER: State Superintendent Christina Grant, District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) Chancellor Lewis Ferebee and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) recently converged on Cardozo Education Campus to announce the expansion of a citywide high-impact […]
WASHINGTON INFORMER: Several weeks after District public school teachers ratified their retroactive contract, the D.C. Council started deliberating on the long-awaited document that includes pay raises and other stipulations about benefits and planning time. The […]
WASHINGTON INFORMER: In the aftermath of two daytime shootings that left three schoolchildren critically injured, D.C. Council member Janeese Lewis George (D-Ward 4) has issued a call for an immediate cease-fire between warring neighborhood crews […]
WASHINGTON INFORMER: District elected officials ranging from Mayor Muriel Bowser to members of advisory neighborhood commissions took their oath of office Monday at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Northwest before an estimated crowd […]
WASHINGTON INFORMER: This fall, the college enrollment decline that started during the pandemic slowed down. Data released by National Student Clearinghouse showed a 1.1% decline, compared to 6.6%, or close to 1 million students, in the beginning months […]
WASHINGTON INFORMER: A group that includes community organizers, a workforce development expert and a father of a murdered youth is calling for peace during the holiday season. These men have also revealed plans to, once […]
