Posts tagged Muriel Bowser
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Breakfast links: Legal leaps
Purple or private?; Parking’s history; Taking a toll; Can you hear me now?; A strong Dulles; Parking pivot; Middle class and the car; And…. Keep reading…
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Volunteer tutors aren’t the answer to DC’s reading crisis
Some observers are pinning their hopes on volunteer tutors as a low-cost way of narrowing the achievement gap between low-income students and their more affluent peers. But there are limits to what volunteer tutors can do. A leading nonprofit tutoring organization deploys minimally trained volunteers to teach reading comprehension as a set of skills. The problem is that to… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Take a ride
Not bad; Columbia Pike Metro?; Squash pop-ups; Parks, not parking; Passing grade; Just say no; Call the play; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Congratulations, it’s a train!
Birth of a Metro car; Deja vu?; I can’t see them; In n’ out; Diet commitments; Marines on the move; The library goes to school; Cooped up; Gotta go; “Up” house floating away; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: On the rise
Back on track; Just around the corner; Aim high; Save the ‘sphere; Decisions, decisions; How we gonna pay?; It’s gentrification; Too darn high; And…. Keep reading…
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Reform WMATA? Slash and burn? Or stay the course?
What does WMATA need? Just more money, and otherwise everything is okay? Major cuts, abandoning hope of eight-car trains and fixing the Blue Line in this generation? Or a balance of real management reforms and more investment at the same time? These are the positions Virginia, Maryland, and DC officials, respectively, are taking. In a recent article in the Washington Post, Abigail… Keep reading…
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DC’s attorney general has okayed DCPS’s plan to help males of color. But that may not be the end of the story.
DC’s attorney general has decided that a District initiative to help boys and young men “of color” doesn’t violate laws against sex discrimination. But there are large holes in his argument. In January, Mayor Muriel Bowser and DC Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson unveiled a $20 million initiative called Empowering Males of Color (EMOC). Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Crystal ball
See the future; London calling; Competing; Fixing parks; I’ve got the power; Passive houses take Manhattan; The hold steady; Bike lanes to nowhere; The ‘Zards at Howard?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Budget season
Housing the homeless; Funding transit; Repeat a grade; In my day; Drop your weapons; City and country; Safety dance; Safety data; Anti pop-up candidate; Weigh in. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Up in the air
ICYMI; Line up; Credit where due; Homesick; Free and clear; Fresh blood; Whatchamacallit; Come together; Just do it. Keep reading…