Ashton! Demi! Tobey!
At Ballou!
That's right—honest-to-god A-listers made their way out to the oft-maligned Congress Heights high school this morning. There, a breakfast was held commemorating today's "day of service" on the occasion of Martin Luther King's birthday.
Also in attendance: Superman star Brandon Rauch, West Winger Richard Schiff, California first lady Maria Shriver, and some dude [...]
D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray apparently finally got around to reading Amanda Ripley's Time magazine cover story on Michelle Rhee that ran last month. And he didn't like what he read. He posted a letter Friday to Time editors expressing "outrage" at a line in Ripley's story.
LL just caught Tom Nida, the chair of the Public Charter School Board, ahead of the board's monthly meeting tonight.
Asked about Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton's demand that, in the wake of the Washington Post's reporting on alleged self-dealing, he resign his post, Nida said, "I serve at the pleasure of the mayor."
Asked if he would [...]
On Sunday, the Washington Post dropped a huge investigative report on the many, many intertwined links between officials on the Public Charter Schools Board, their employers, and the schools they oversee.
Now Eleanor Holmes Norton is weighing in on the matter. She wants PCSB Chair Tom Nida and credit enhancement committee chair Barbara Hart to resign, [...]
