Metro Briefs: DCPS boasts increase in lottery enrollment
District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) experienced an across-the-board increase in applications for the annual preschool, pre-kindergarten, and K-12 Out-of-Boundary lottery with strong gains at the preschool and pre-kindergarten levels reflecting a continuing trend of growth in those grades. [HOWARD UNIVERSITY THE DISTRICT CHRONICLES]
Michelle Rhee comments on MO Charter Law
In a recent guest article in the Kansas City Star, Michelle Rhee commented on two twin-bills currentlyworking their way through the Missouri House and Senate. [HIGH MARKS SCHOOLS]
D.C. organization administering voucher program fires its president
The Washington Post’s Mike DeBonis reports today that the board of the Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation, the organization that runs the nation’s capital’s private school voucher program, fired its president Ellen London. [EXAMINER]
Former chief of staff to DC Council member released from prison after 8 months
A former District of Columbia official who pleaded guilty to accepting money in a bribery case involving the city’s taxicab industry has been released after spending eight months in prison. [THE WASHINGTON POST]
