Top 10 Signs Your School District Isn’t Really The Greatest. [Title: Thank God We’re Not Washington, D.C.]

Will the Obama's send their kids to DC public schools?  This article is calling for Mr. Obama to live up to his words and do so.  But if you were President of the United States would you enroll your kids in a district where 88% of Eight Graders Can’t Read?

Last night the city council and school chancellor Michelle Rhee sat down to have a discussion about the school budget.  At times the meeting got a bit heated (from reading what happened) and the Washington Post has a really good write up.  What caught my eye was Marion Barry's comments, Council ...

DC School Chancellor Michelle Rhee is asking the DC council to transfer $100 Million in existing funds and to match more money to help with budgets and a teacher shortage. Maybe she should remember that she fired 750 teachers/aids before the start of the school year and is paying ...

Last night while on the way home with my girlfriend we got talking about DC students getting paid to show up to school.  One question we both had had was about taxes.  As you all know some DC students can make up to $200.00 every two weeks just for showing ...

Washington, DC School Chancellor Michelle Rhee is passing the blame to the teachers for the Special Eduction problem in the DC school district.  More of the story can be found at the Washington Post.

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Credit: Franco Folini"][/caption] I told you about a plan to pay DC students for good grades and attendance back in September and how I thought the idea was bad. Well those first checks were distrubuted last week to students.  Also I heard on the news that ...

Washington, DC Schools have a new Special Education Chief.  Richard Nyankori will take over the the position and will be the districts 3rd special ed chief.

Mayor Fenty has release his plan to increase spending to update the schools in the district.  The plan calls to spend $1.3 Billion to improve the schools by 2014.  No other real details are available but the plan consists of 250 pages.  This plan comes just days after the City ...