Deputy Mayor for Education Resigns
• February 20, 2018

Jennifer Niles resigned just days after the mayor was alerted that she had helped Public Schools Chancellor Antwan Wilson’s daughter make a non-lottery transfer to Wilson High.      

Suspicious Package Found at Duke Ellington School
• February 8, 2018

Police closed streets near the high school and students were evacuated to Hardy Middle School, two blocks north on 35th Street.

All About Politics: Doug Jones, Mayor Bowser and Ballou High
• December 14, 2017

Should Tuesday, Dec. 12, have been a national day of jubilation? Our columnist looks at the election in Alabama and what comes next, as well as at two issues in the District.

Glass-Encased West End Library Opens
• December 11, 2017

The 21,000-square-foot library is the first in D.C. to be entirely planned, funded and constructed as a public-private partnership, according to Deputy Mayor Brian Kenner.

Mathewes Speaks at Cultural Leadership Breakfast
• November 9, 2017

A milestone in Melanie Mathewes’s effort to expand the audience for the National Sporting Library & Museum is the exhibition “The Horse in Ancient Greek Art,” which opened Sept. 9 and runs through Jan. 14.

Textile Museum’s Wetenhall Speaks at George Town Club
• October 12, 2017

The George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum — designed by Hartman-Cox to incorporate historic Woodhull House, most recently a security office — opened at G and 21st Streets in March of 2015.

‘Wilderness’ Is Urgent, Fresh Theater
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Featuring music, movement and video projections (including the use of Skype), the show is a challenging and moving journey into the lives of contemporary troubled teens.

Dave Chappelle Gives Emmy to Ellington School, Gets Key to Washington, D.C.
• September 29, 2017

Dave Chappelle returned to his alma mater, the Duke Ellington School of the Arts on 35th Street, remarking on its reconstruction and giving the cheering students advice Sept. 29. Chappelle […]

2 of the Best Things About the U.S.
• September 5, 2017

Over the past week, scenes of incredible rescues and help for victims by volunteers during the storm of the millennium in Texas reminded me of the epiphany I had 20 […]

First Day of School, Busing for Hyde-Addison Kids
• August 21, 2017

Under the watchful eyes of parents, students from Georgetown’s only public elementary school, now being renovated, boarded buses to Meyer School.