Education
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Beauvoir School book fair
Beauvoir librarian and veteran storyteller Tony Hurst will be entertaining the children in the first grade common area with folktales, legends, and stories.
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Education faculty on board with overhaul
Administrators hope reorganization will be complete by fall 2011.
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Vote for Cora Kelly STEM playground
This September, the Cora Kelly PTA was one of over 1,600 communities across the country that hosted a KaBOOM!
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Bulova requests $5 million from VDOT for widening Route 236
Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chair Sharon Bulova has asked the state to spend some of its budget surplus on road projects in Northern Virginia.
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Even keel in Montgomery Co. Council, school board
The closest margin was a 19-point victory over the Republican challenger in District 2.
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Adrian Fenty and Michelle Rhee: What the Taiwanese cartoon on education reform gets wrong
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What that crazy Taiwanese animation gets right and wrong about education reform and Adrian Fenty's loss, now that he's officially about to become a lame duck mayor.
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Sadonis, others address complaints in BOEE hearing
The Office of Campaign Finance did not make any rulings at an hour-long closed hearing yesterday.
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Michelle Rhee outspoken to the end of her tenure as D.C. schools chancellor
She is D.C. schools chancellor for just one more day, but that didn't stop Michelle A. Rhee from issuing one last warning.
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County, colleges to explore possible tech center
A new center for technology and education may be coming to Boswells Corner’s expanding Quantico Corporate Center.
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DC charter schools should centralize admissions
How can we make education greater in DC? One place to start is by making it easier for families to select great public schools.
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Campaign signs, round 2: Gennari touts green support on placards
Such partisanship went against the spirit of Virginia’s law making School Board races nonpartisan.
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Michelle Rhee and Adrian Fenty star in Taiwanese animated news video about education reform
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They might be on their way out of District government, but now's your chance to see departing D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and departing D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee in a brand new way.
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Familiar faces square off in District 2 school board election
College Park officials have different approaches to improving schools.
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Race and class in Montgomery County
DCentric reader Matt kindly pointed me towards a blog I was unaware of– “Just up the Pike“.
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New county executive to host education discussion
Parents with concerns can voice them in Mitchellville Oct. 19.
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Loudoun County Schools will start before Labor Day in 2011
Loudoun County Public Schools announced that the school year for all students will begin a week early next year on Monday, August 29, 2011.
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Have we reached universal Pre-K in the District?
According to Gray, D.C. has reached the milestone of universal public Pre-K four years ahead of schedule.
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Baker 'listening' session set
The meeting, open to the public, is from 7 p.m.-9 p.m. at Lake Arbor Elementary School.
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