- Bill Turque
- Reporter
Bill Turque came to The Post as an editor on the Maryland staff in 2002 after 15 years at Newsweek,where he covered the White House and national politics. He covered Fairfax County government before taking over the D.C. schools beat in April 2008. He’s also worked at The Kansas City Star and The Dallas Times Herald.
School finance panel calls for funding changes
A commission wants schools to receive more money for serving larger numbers of students who are both from low-income households and far behind academically.
Charters quick to expel, council told
One Ward 7 high school booted 8 percent (102 of 1,231) of its students in 2010-11, according to numbers compiled by the D.C. Public Charter School Board.
College prep bill gets cool reception from school officials
A trio of top District school officials devoted most of their prepared statements to how wonderfully their agencies were already doing.
DCPS enrollment: Missing the mark by $18 million
This week’s audited enrollment showed DCPS with 45,191 students. That means the system got $18.4 million for students who aren’t eligible for residency reasons or who never materialized.
- District to experience middle school surge, study says
- District to start ‘conversation’ about special ed
- BASIS head says early tweaks are not a ‘watering down’
- OSSE narrows probe of suspect test erasures
- New count could cut high school graduation rates 20 percent
- Brown: Keep charter facilities allowance at $3000 per student
- Gifted-and-talented not a first for DCPS
- DCPS lottery: A look at the available seats
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