Photo from Muriel for Mayor website.

Candidates on school boundary proposals: Democratic mayoral nominee Muriel Bowser opposes cutting neighborhoods east of the park out of the Deal-Wilson feeder pattern, and presumptive independent candidate David Catania would “press pause” on the whole thing until schools have been improved. (Post)

Bowser cagey on keeping Henderson: The candidate met with the DCPS Chancellor but has not yet made a decision. In an interview, Bowser also expanded on her “Alice Deal for all” campaign pledge. (WAMU)

And she’s not ready to debate education: Bowser declined to participate in an education-oriented candidate forum in June, saying she wants to wait until Catania collects enough signatures to qualify for the general-election ballot. (Post)

More analysis of the boundary proposals: What they do, who’s happy, and who freaks out. (City Paper)

And more anxious parents: Parents who like their currently assigned schools vented their dismay about the proposed changes at Coolidge High School Tuesday night. (City Paper)

The details on the school lottery: DCPS has released data that shows how many children applied for slots at each DCPS school, how many got in, and how many of those admitted had a lottery preference. (Post)

Snow day aftermath: DCPS got a pass on two of its 6 snow days, but students will need to have additional school time in June to meet the 180-day requirement. (Post)

Longer school days in school budget: Next year half of DCPS schools could have an additional 4 hours of instruction per week, at a cost of $100,000 per school—except for Dunbar, which would get 6 times that amount. (DC Fiscal Policy Institute)

Achievement gap grows in Montgomery: A new report says the county schools are increasingly divided on ethnic and economic lines, with students at high-poverty schools doing worse than those at more affluent schools on a number of measures. (Post)

Asians predominate at selective Fairfax school: The freshman class at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology next year will be 66% Asian and 24% white, with only 10 black and 8 Hispanic students. (Post)