Posts tagged Education
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ANC resents AU students and their windows
ANC 3D issued their report on American University’s campus plan. It’s laden with contempt for AU students, from their existing living in residential areas to the kinds of blinds or tapestries they hang in the windows. Each DC university is required to submit a campus plan every 10 years. This decennial process opens the wounds of town-gown relations. American… Keep reading…
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Weekend links: CaBi CaBi everywhere
CaBi in your CBA; CaBi in the CBD; Arlington businesses fine with CaBi; How to get parents to let kids walk or bike to school?; Neighborhoods exacerbate kids’ obesity; DC lacking public spaces; Reward for not using Gehry; US exceptional, and not in a good way; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: You’re fired
Taxi Commisioner let go; Fired teachers maybe fired for good reason?; GOP doesn’t get location efficiency; Developer gives away cars to home buyers; Good development on 14th Street; Fairfax leaders take mode challenge; Students to test SmartTrip IDs; Struck pedestrian dies. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Orange you glad?
Orange wins; Investigation of Gray admin hits snag; Good signs and bad for MARC; MoCo will fight immigration rules; How is Metro today?; MoCo picks new schools chief; London bikeshare outgrowing itself; AASHTO backpedals on bike-ped objections; And…. Keep reading…
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Will the real education candidate please stand up?
Several weeks ago, we asked the major candidates for the April 26th at-large DC Council special election to answer a set of eight questions about a councilmember’s role in specific education policy issues. We received answers from four of the candidates: Alan Page, Vincent Orange, Bryan Weaver, and Sekou Biddle. We reviewed the responses to see how well the candidates… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Defending against BRAC
Carpools key to Mark Center sanity; Bethesda in for a BRAC surprise; East Falls Church plan a go; Shuffling VA Metro seats; A cheaper underground Dulles station?; Finding out-of-District DCPS students; A long battle for vehicular manslaughter; Getting smart growth right in MD; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Puzzling over budgets
Transportation cuts bad, but not so bad; DCPS budget is “inscrutable”; Neighbors want more buildings at AU; Peak of the peak not working; New stations, members come to CaBi; Negligent driving becomes illegal; Gray gets parking debate; Getting the city fleet in order; And…. Keep reading…
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GU campus plan changes target zoning board, not neighbors
Georgetown University’s neighbors have continued to push back on its campus plan, and the university made some changes. But it’s clear that at this point, Georgetown has stopped trying to win over the neighbors and is instead aiming at the DC Office of Planning and body that really has to approve the changes, the Zoning Commission. There’s more to the changes… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What you didn’t expect
Spacey takes CaBi; Gentrification reduces displacement?; Ward 8 isn’t the most jobless; Ervin supports the bag fee; CityCenterNowHappening; We have a lot of bike commuters; A little bit of tolerance; No tolerance for ads; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: For real
Late-night service likely safe, other service not; Pass the negligent driving bill; 2 of 4 HPRB nominations may cause problems; UDC wants to grow in people, not cars; Drivers are safer, other road users…?; Tysons Corner 22102; Kidical Mass in 3 weeks; And…. Keep reading…