The Post's Bill Turque reports that more than 2000 new students have enrolled in charter schools this school year, bringing enrollment up eight percent. We wonder how the bump is spread across schools—considering how poorly a lot of District charters are ranked. Meanwhile, public school enrollment is down one percent, and charters now educate 41 [...]
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Don't Shoot: In response to information about Councilmember Marion Barry’s 2012 State of the Ward Address, set for March 20, one resident was “taken aback” by the fact that “the Ward 8 State of the Ward Address is scheduled [...]
Tuition Increases and "Sacrifices" At Howard: The recession is still having an effect at Howard University. In a letter to the university, President Sidney Ribeau writes that now's the time to make some sacrifices. City Paper intern Maya Rhodan notes for The Hilltop: "Some of the sacrifices include the deferment of selected campus facilities projects, [...]
The Fab Life has the video from a concert that the late Whitney Houston performed back in 1997 at DAR Constitution Hall. (The audio isn't in sync, but it's still worth checking out.) The October 3 concert was her last performance in the District, DCist notes.
Last year we brought you straight talk for your sweetheart and this year we're doing it again. Sending one of these cards to that lad or lady you've been creeping on via OKCupid is literally the least you can do.
Ways to send:
Link to this entire page.
Right-click an image to save it and pass around on your [...]
The Eagle notes that AU is no longer directly involved with a Nigerian school it helped found in 2005, the American University of Nigeria (AUN):
AUN, located in Yola, was founded in January 2004 as a collaborative effort between AU and the vice president of Nigeria and prominent businessman Atiku Abubakar.
AU and the school had a [...]
The Examiner and a few other outlets are reporting that Metro is spending $51.9 million on contractors:
Metro is relying on the consultants for situations in which the transit agency needs "scarce" skills for specific engineering work, analysts to generate independent studies or expertise in crafting contract requests, [Metro spokesman Dan] Stessel said. He said the [...]
Feb. 10th © 2012 Matt Dunn
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Flower Flour Thief: On the MPD 1D email list, a member writes, "Someone stole my UPS delivery from King Arthur Flour...who would want flour??" They add in a second email, "I can not, for the life of me, wonder [...]
Feb. 10. © 2012 Matt Dunn
Turn Out The Lights: It always feels a little Christmas-y in Adams Morgan, thanks to the illuminated martini glass, music note, coffee cup, and shoe that have been hanging from lightposts in the neighborhood for the last decade. But like a tree that's dropped all its needles and needs to go out to the curb, [...]
Looks like the Park Service has met the deadline set by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to come up with a solution to the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial quote fiasco. The Post is reporting that the agency will replace the 10-word truncated quote, "I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness," with the original 45-word [...]
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, 2/3. ©2012 Michael W. Hicks
Last night's Zoning Commission public meeting on the Georgetown campus plan—which I've been reporting on for a longer piece that'll be in the paper—was remarkably short. The last Georgetown hearing I went to lasted nearly five hours. Yesterday's ran from 6:30 until about 8:45 p.m.
But the shortness of the meeting was a bad sign—at least [...]
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Garden of Evil: "I have been trying for years and years to get a plot. But, in reading comments from people involved in 'running' the gardens, I am shocked at how unkind and mean-spirited everyone sounds. I [...]
