Posts tagged Education
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Breakfast links: Share the success
How CaBi went from dream to hit; CaBi still tops, for now; Where’s the crashiest; WABA looks to close gender gap; Skyland rolling, now with less parking; Damascus dry no more; Education bombshells; How divided is DC on income?; What’s up in 2013 transportation; And…. Keep reading…
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New Year’s Eve links: Encourage cycling
GW provides parking for bikes but not cars; WABA seeks funds for woman riders; Brace yourself bicyclists, winter is coming; Still not great for young black men; Tops in 2012 transportation; Not your typical day on Metro; How not to build light rail; Tea Party weakens. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Who’s on the Council
Committees are out; Silverman runs; Politics for all; Windshield Washingtonian; UDC president fired; Officer reluctant to ticket driver; McDonnell commits to 460; A very desirable house; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The last vote
Council votes; Barry’s ex-con law fails; Step back for campaign finance; Frederick, Howard tops in schools; Build high in Pentagon City?; Calling all car apps; LA approves 1st area without parking minimums; And…. Keep reading…
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Don’t favor local kids in charter admissions, says task force
Charter schools don’t give priority to kids who live nearby, instead choosing all students from a citywide lottery. Some other big cities, like New York, allow or require a neighborhood preference in charter admissions. In a report released Friday, a DC task force set up to consider this idea recommended against DC following the lead of these cities. The task force did… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not working?
Little movement in test scores; Hampton doesn’t need roads; Developer sues over empty IZ units; Recriminations over red tops; Free parking fight, 1955 on the Ellipse; From Russia with civic ambivalence; Not so sudden developments; Work done on Wisconsin; And…. Keep reading…
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Should school choice work like bank choice?
A majority of public school students east of Rock Creek Park now attend charter or magnet schools, a fact that some consider a victory for school choice. If this trend continues, we’ll have a system with no neighborhood schools at all, where everyone chooses a school from a menu, like you choose a bank. Is this an acceptable outcome? The Brookings Institution ranked urban… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bonded
Dems make Bonds interim councilmember; Judge blocks Ivy City yard; Arlington rejects electric taxis; Bethesda could be better for bikes; From parking to park; DC still the Corcoran’s home; DC one of the choiciest; Tax land, not buildings?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stop the madness
Use McMillan site to stop flooding?; Trade the FBI for the Redskins?; Cyclist stabs driver; Rail yard construction could delay Silver Line; Wards 1 & 2 making the most children; Development along Lee Highway?; Fairfax wants funds from Pentagon; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Getting around
Metro keeping 2 Southeast bus routes; Need to fund transit to grow; Transit pays off; What’s going to happen to transportation?; More DC Bikeshare delayed; Arlington may close tax-dodging restaurants; DC moving to legalize Uber; And…. Keep reading…