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Byline: By D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) and other elected officials have decried congressional interference in D.C.'s affairs, as expressed in the Feb. 5 Metro article 'Bowser: Congress shouldn't [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND -- Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) will take office Jan. 15 with an asset that few other Virginia governors have enjoyed: a state budget that's flush [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler The Philadelphia fourth-grader whom President Trump singled out during his State of the Union address as one of thousands of students 'trapped in failing government schools' actually [...]

Byline: Editorial Board 'I HAVE a plan' is the battle cry of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) as she campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination. She has laid out a series [...]

Byline: Editorial Board THE DISTRICT'S charter school sector has been largely untouched as charter school opponents across the country have waged an increasingly relentless campaign against them. That is mainly [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss (Update: Adding reaction) Leaders of the NAACP, the oldest civil rights organization in the United States, bucked intense pressure from supporters of charter schools on Saturday and [...]

Byline: Perry Stein More than 700 students could be scrambling to find a new school for the next academic year after a D.C. board voted unanimously to revoke the charter [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss The powerful board that oversees charter schools in Washington acted improperly when it voted in June to allow a charter network to expand, the D.C. Office of [...]

Byline: Katie Mettler After stern admonishments from the Massachusetts attorney general's office, the Boston-area charter school that punished black girls for wearing braided hair extensions decided Sunday to suspend its [...]

Byline: Editorial Board THE PROPOSAL by Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) to allow charter schools to give an edge to children who live nearby has several caveats. Only students who [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss 'I am no fan of hyperbole, but I mean it when I say this: North Carolina is waging war against public education.' That was written in August [...]

Byline: Emma Brown The Michigan legislature has narrowly approved a $617 million package to bail out and restructure the troubled Detroit public school system, which is expected to run out [...]

Byline: Emma Brown In the decade since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and swept away its public school system, the city has become a closely watched experiment in whether untethering [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella RICHMOND -- Legislation to amend the state constitution to promote charter schools went down in a surprising defeat in the Virginia Senate on Monday. The denial of [...]

Byline: Ovetta Wiggins;Jenna Johnson A Maryland Senate committee voted Tuesday to approve a watered-down version of a bill proposed by Gov. Larry Hogan (R) that was designed to increase the [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella RICHMOND -- A proposed constitutional amendment meant to make it easier to establish charter schools in Virginia cleared the state Senate Wednesday after a heated debate over [...]

Byline: Anita Kumar The Virginia Senate on Tuesday passed Gov. Robert F. McDonnell's proposal designed to expand the number of charter schools in the state. The Democratic-controlled Senate passed the [...]