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(From 2017) Tomorrow we have our fourth Annual Storytelling Festival for the AmeriCorps programs of Maryland. Our hosts at Casa Maryland and Pablo Blank always provide a warm welcome in their amazing space. Each year, we try different things and…..
By Alyssa Rosenberg Columnist December 8, 2022 at 3:53 p.m. EST|Published December 6, 2022 This holiday season, let’s press pause on one of the culture wars. Recent tussles over the “appropriateness” of kids’ books obscure the genius and joy of so much children’s…..
By Lauren Lumpkin and Sahana Jayaraman Updated October 24, 2022 at 6:27 p.m. EDT|Published October 24, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EDT Washington Post In March 2021, the Biden administration released the federal government’s largest pool of pandemic relief for public schools. The American Rescue Plan infused…..
By Eugene Robinson Washington Post October 25th 2022 It turns out that all the bitter back-and-forth between red and blue states about how quickly to reopen schools during the covid-19 pandemic was nothing but political theater, as far as test scores are concerned. Student performance suffered…..
By Katie Shepherd November 13, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EST Montgomery County voters elected a historic slate of candidates to the County Council on Tuesday, adding Latina, Asian and Black representatives to a body that will be majority-female for the first time……
By Erin Cox and Ovetta Wiggins Updated November 8, 2022 at 8:52 p.m. EST|Published November 8, 2022 at 8:00 p.m. EST Washington Post Author and former nonprofit chief Wes Moore, a Democrat, defeated far-right Republican Dan Cox to become the first Black person elected governor in…..
By Katie Shepherd November 4, 2022 at 7:26 p.m. EDT Washington Post Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich on Friday signed a bill that expands county police training to include 30 hours of coursework at Montgomery College aimed at reducing racial bias. Cadets…..
By Nicole Asbury and Corinne Dorsey Updated November 1, 2022 at 10:27 a.m. EDT|Published October 29, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EDT Washington Post In Montgomery County, abus driver shortage has led to some schools having to excuse students from classes when their buses do not show…..
By Katherine Shaver Washington Post Published October 25, 2022 at 1:10 p.m. EDT The Montgomery County Council unanimously approved a 30-year growth plan Tuesday that calls for denser development, including a recommendation to allow duplexes, triplexes and small apartment buildings in neighborhoods zoned for…..
D.C. teacher reveals chaos unleashed by trying not to be too hard on kids Perspective by Jay Mathews Washington Post Oct 24th 2022 A teacher I know was working at a D.C. public high school when the district installed a rule…..
BY COLLIN BINKLEY AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS October 24, 2022 at 5:04 AM EDT from FORTUNE The COVID-19 pandemic spared no state or region as it caused historic learning setbacks for America’s children, erasing decades of academic progress and widening racial disparities, according to results…..