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No More Stokes
For nearly five years, John A. Stokes has tried to sell city reporters on good news stories like summer meals for children and college tuition programs for D.C. high school students, as a spokesman for the state education office. Now he'll be doing it from a different perch, as the...
By Theola Labbé | May 14, 2008; 12:00 PM ET | Email a Comment
Basket Half Empty
In light of the budget woes the city is facing, a collection of about 40 affordable housing advocates gathered at the John A. Wilson Building this morning to walk the halls distributing half empty baskets of food to D.C. Council members. The idea, said Martina Gillis, advocacy coordinator for the...
By David A Nakamura | May 7, 2008; 11:18 AM ET | Email a Comment
The Chancellor Rhee Ties That Do or Don't Bind?
We told you once, then twice, about DC resident Kristin Ehrgood, and the group she helped put together, DC School Reform Now. A reminder: they are citizens and parents circulating a petition in support of the education reform plans of Mayor Fenty and Chancellor Rhee. Then D.C. Wire heard an...
By Theola Labbé | April 16, 2008; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (1)
So Who Worked on the DC Catholic-Charter Conversions?
With the local arrival of Pope Benedict XVI today, D.C. Wire is reminded of a story last week about the state of Catholic education in the U.S. Archbishop of Washington Donald W. Wuerl toured Nationals Park yesterday in preparation for Thursday's Papal Mass. (Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post) That piece included...
By Theola Labbé | April 15, 2008; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (1)
More on School Reform....At the D.C. Council Today
Beth Schmierer and Kristin Ehrgood, District residents who started an online petition that DC Wire told you about yesterday, are slated to testify before the D.C. Council this morning at the budget hearing for the school system....
By Theola Labbé | April 8, 2008; 07:28 AM ET | Comments (3)
