Posts tagged Charter Schools
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Breakfast links: Moving you better
Group forms for Purple Line; Metro escalators keep moving; Fee pushes riders to SmarTrip; WMATA announces Inauguration Day service; GOP win bad for DC real estate? No; DC school population grows; DC shares surplus with charter schools; Why Parkmobile hates Dodd-Frank; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Public or private?
A new path for charters; Library group hurting libraries?; The eGoofacehoople Arts Transit Authority; 711 more solar panels; Pay DC more hotel money; The missing money; See money from space; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Uncertain developments
Transit center further delayed; MLB forbids paying for late Metro?; Bikeshare-athlon; Groceries for U Street; The school spot shuffle; Fake bus stops for the disoriented; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Jail time
Driver gets prison term; Copenhagen’s bikes ride “superhighway”; Improve the whole NEC at once?; Unemployment falls in DC; Charter Washington Latin to take abandoned school; And…. Keep reading…
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Create one single lottery for charter and non-charter schools
The current application process for DC’s charter and non-charter public schools is a chaotic mess that confuses parents and hurts education for students. DC could fix many problems by creating a centralized lottery process for all public schools, charter and non-charter. Steve Glazerman called for a centralized application for charter schools in 2010. Since then,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: It will grow
Columbia Pike will change; What’s up in northern Maryland; Streetcar will move ahead?; Gray for campaign finance reform; Lots waiting for charters; Watch David talk Metro; Will Boxer cave?; Waters rising in Delmarva. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Mendocracy
Mendelson, Brown win leadership posts; Purple Line tunnel could have sidewalk; “A” for effort at least; Columbia Pike streetcar survives; Space for charters; Some people are rude, including on bikes; Don’t rush to conclusions; Who’s at fault; Where the car-free are; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Slower or faster
Residents made traffic safer; Montgomery pushes Glenmont development; Retail doesn’t come to stations; Bad bank deals hurt transit agencies; House rejects transportation extremism; Should poorer kids get priority at charters?; Bike bits; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast Links: Bring the buses
Buses growing more quickly than rail; It’s affordable, but not mortgagable; What’s up with Walter Reed; District budget approved; Council shuffle creates new development committee; Memorial Circle still dangerous; What is the Corcoran thinking?; Time running out on transpo bill; How Battery Park City became rich. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Off the rails
Metro derails; Diner on the move; Who are the new residents?; Farm the roof; 3-foot confusing; What’s libertarian transportation?; Rental units not all in big buildings; Barry makes point poorly. Keep reading…