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A resolution approved Thursday directs the school district to look for energy efficient ways to make needed repairs. The ...
Once one of the most difficult colors to recreate in paint, blue was only available to medieval artists, for example, by grinding up the prized stone known as lapis lazuli. By the 1900s, it was still ...
Declining school enrollment has left 30% of Chicago public schools at least half-empty. The city’s failure to address this ...
Washington & Jefferson College will be welcoming its largest incoming class in history in the fall, a number that stands now at 613. With that in mind, the school is partnering with the historic ...
Padalino on Wednesday said the program had grown to cost $2,000 more per student than at any of the district’s other elementary schools. “George Washington has 22 non-special education teacher ...
The old Fairmont Heights High School, which was Prince George’s County’s first publicly funded high school built for Black students during segregation, closed in 2017 and sits fenced off to ...
Four students from the Washington, D.C. area have been selected as prestigious Milken Scholars. The program provides high school students in D.C., New York and Los Angeles with a full scholarship ...
Prince George’s County educators cast a no-confidence vote on Superintendent Millard House II in an emergency meeting Wednesday, saying the concerns and needs of students have been ignored ...
The federal government recognized June as Pride Month under three Democratic presidents. Two Republican presidents did not recognize it.
Future of national public lands is precarious, but Americans across demographic and ideological lines value parks: ‘people champion their parks.’ ...
The woman often credited with sewing the first national U.S. flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her descendants claimed — might have been puzzled by ...