- 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.
- At Kramer, stepping into the “blended” age
- D.C. teacher evaluation formula could change
- ISO: Current or former parents of charter school special education students
- NCLB waiver bid stalled by Ed Dept. concerns
- OSSE report: District pays at least $10 million to educate non-resident students
- At Meyer awards, teachers who answered the call
- How is DCPS paying for ‘What’s Possible’?
- DCPS, union reach accord on teacher retirement
- NCLB waiver docs to be released by Friday
- D.C. may give neighborhood families preference in charter school admissions
- Neighborhood admissions preference for charter schools to be studied
- BASIS high school places in U.S. News & World Report’s top 10
- WTU’s Saunders: New Kaya Henderson reform plan lacks ‘candid assessment’ of student needs
- D.C. mum on federal response to NCLB waiver bid
- Northwest D.C. schools: Renovated Janney faces third-grade crowding
- “Excessing” notices for 333 DCPS teachers
- Link between value-added ratings and classroom observations is modest at best, studies show
- Charter board has spent $1 million to close failed schools
- Can a charter school be a neighborhood school?
- Four new charter schools to open in 2013
- D.C. chancellor announces new 5-year education plan, warns of closures
- Henderson and Gray sketch out big plans for DCPS
- Henderson: Cheating probe ‘wrapping up’
- District: Freezing charter pay never the plan
- Gray freezes, then thaws, charter school payments
- DCPS central office gets low grades for work environment, job satisfaction
- Henderson launches $10 million grant program to help DCPS reach new academic targets
- Four schools honored by Fight for Children
- DCPS graduation rate: Some good news
- In D.C. schools, 59 percent of students get diploma on time
- D.C. graduation rate declines to less than 60% under new formula
- Vacant D.C. school buildings could house public charters
- Two D.C. school reform events, competing visions
- Memphis tries D.C.-style teacher evaluation
- DCPS lottery: Interest continues to grow
- D.C. high school offers $50 gift cards for high scores on tests
- Gray proposes extra funding for D.C. charters
- DCPS budget: Why per-pupil spending at high schools is low
- D.C. school budget: Parents, students decry cuts to high schools, librarians, special ed coordinators
- IMPACT: Does it favor younger teachers?
- DCPS budget: the Rhee Effect
- DCPS paying $2.2 million for buildings it doesn’t use
- D.C. Council approves education bills
- D.C. Council passes stack of education bills that start small but aim high
- Commission: Charter schools likely to continue gaining on DCPS
- Community Academy Rand campus closure plan sparks tensions between founder, charter board
- Rhee, District off the hook in teacher sex case
- Alvarez and Marsal hired for cheating probe
- Kaya Henderson: Charters must be ‘in my tool kit’
- ‘Creative ... motivating’ and fired
- DCPS budget: IMPACT’s impact
- Kwame Brown’s omnibus education act
- Kaya Henderson on DCPS cheating allegations: Many doubt minority children can make big gains on tests
- Charter board relents on IDEA closure, pushes to shutter Community Academy’s Rand campus
- Henderson calls for national standards to guide probes of cheating
- Kaya Henderson: National standards needed to guide educators in detection, investigation of cheating
- Principal: Students gumming up new Wilson HS
- Should District get back into the business of authorizing charter schools?
- District seeks return of chartering authority
- D.C. mayor, schools chief discuss plan to restore city power to create charters
- Chancellor Kaya Henderson and top staff in food fight
- D.C. schools with more low-income, academically troubled students should get more money, panel recommends
- Charters quick to suspend, expel, council told
- Kwame Brown’s college prep bill gets cool reception from DCPS officials
- DCPS enrollment: Missing the mark by $18 million
- 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
- DCPS to pilot gifted-and-talented program
- New collaboration on D.C. schools
- IDEA charter school fights to stay open
- New focus on D.C. public-charter collaboration
- D.C. charter school under scrutiny for lack of special-ed students
- IFF study of D.C. schools: The pushback begins
- DCPS lottery launches
- D.C. school study: Fears for tiers are premature
- Many public schools in D.C.’s poorest area should be transformed or shut, study says; more charters recommended
- Council rips Henderson on budget overruns
- Cheh: DCPS food service cash crunch is result of error, not rising costs
- Educators say it will take more than dollars to lure effective teachers to struggling D.C. schools
- Deputy mayor for education insulted Ward 4 schools, some say
- Nathan: Charters not entitled to extra funds
- D.C.’s ‘No Child’ waiver application draft available for comment
- ‘Levy Report’: DCPS gets millions more than charters
- Score for scorecards: good, but more details, please
- D.C. schools’ new ‘scorecards’ go beyond testing
- New D.C. school scorecards due out Tuesday
- Charters challenge fairness of $21 million to DCPS
- Read about Ballou’s Gabriel Benn
- Suspicious DC CAS erasures down in 2011, but OSSE withholds school-by-school data
- In D.C. charter schools, a wide variety of challenges
- Two charter schools recommended for closure
- D.C. school closings unlikely to be widespread in 2012
- Hearing on community schools bill cancelled at last minute
- IMPACT study scuttled by differences over method
- Hebrew language charter proposal in the works
- D.C. charter school board gets a new leader
- Montessori specialist is D.C. Teacher of the Year
- DCPS tries to make school office ‘Sad Sacks’ and ‘Sorry Sues’ more customer friendly
- NAEP results suggest long march, not quick turnaround
- D.C. public schools show largest black-white achievement gap in major national test
- District unveils first ranking of public charter schools
- Charter schools unveil new ranking system
- D.C. education agency’s progress questioned
- District wins appeal of special education ruling
- DCPS inaction scuttled teacher early retirement, CFO’s office says
- School choice season is here
- State superintendent’s office hit for bungling NCLB town halls
- New initiatives making schools data readily available
- OSSE employee fired for alleged fraudulent payments to transportation company
- Education finance panel back from limbo
- ‘Tis the season. . .for a fiscal year 2013 school budget hearing
- Three new middle schools proposed for Northeast D.C.’s Ward 5
- Henderson ‘disappointed’ with special ed ruling
- DCPS proposes new middle schools for Ward 5
- Special ed bus service stays under court supervision
- D.C. says there’s no money for contract early retirement provision
- Court orders District to expand preschool special education
- A list of the other ‘Tools’ schools
- D.C. school reform targets early lessons
- A new Early Stages diagnostic center opens
- Kaya Henderson’s sudden turn in the spotlight
- Forty percent of children in D.C. public schools now in charters
- Charter enrollment up, DCPS down in raw count
- Brown introduces D.C. teacher incentive bill
- D.C. educators rated ‘effective’ can still lose jobs
- Closer look puts D.C. NAEP math scores in context
- No plan to reschedule D.C. College Fair
- Washington Teachers’ Union takes moribund appeals office to court
- D.C. math scores up, reading flat, on 2011 NAEP report
- School surveys draw from shallow pool of parents
- DC CAS test is coming to second grade
- Cate Swinburn moves from from wooing donors to crunching test data
- Police check grade-schoolers’ math
- Brown looks at multiple incentives to steer highly effective teachers to weak schools
- Brown proposes waiving annual evaluations to draw top teachers to struggling schools
- Why did Convention Center cancel College Fair?
- Raises for principals, zip for assistant principals, other staff
- Bathroom fires cause $150,000 in damage at Wilson HS
- Michelle Rhee’s D.C. schools legacy is in sharper focus one year later
- D.C. marchers rally for jobs and justice
- Time, money issues push back school equity report
- Welcome to the new “Insiders”
- Rory Pullens to stay at Duke Ellington
- Deal principal ‘not done’ with DCPS
- D.C. tries to draw line on school residency fraud
- Deal Middle School principal leaving for charter venture fund
- Chronic truancy down at some D.C. middle schools
- Anne Chambers Gay remembered
- In Ward 5, calls for more action on schools, less process
- Passions on charter schools surface quickly at ed finance commission
- School closings not a question of ‘if’ but ‘how big’
- Obama tells students: Discover new passions
- Obama’s ‘back to school’ speech at D.C.’s Banneker will urge students to work hard, dream big
- Middle school survey: sex, fear and suicide attempts
- In care and feeding of donors, education fundraisers leave no FAQ unanswered
- Membership set for D.C. school finance panel
- Rory Pullens, Duke Ellington head, off to L.A.
- D.C. parents raise concerns about middle schools
- Arbitrator’s order to rehire 75 D.C. teachers is upheld
- Education finance commission finally forming
- D.C. Teachers get their “Standing Ovation”
- Teachers’ union vice president ousted in dispute with president Saunders
- D.C. ed reformers toast Brill
- Charter board’s search for director back to square one
- New details on the health/sex test
- D.C. schools prepare for nation’s first sex-education standardized testing
- Ward 5 schools meeting set for Sept. 29
- Senior management moves at DCPS
- Civil rights icon Robert Moses promotes middle school algebra
- Which schools feed Banneker and Walls?
- Wells to Ward 5: Don’t ‘demagogue by demographics’
- Middle schools: What successful charters do
- Can D.C. keep middle schoolers from ‘teetering on the ninth-grade cliff’?
- DCPS eases IMPACT for highly effective teachers
- Middle school roundtable set for Wednesday
- Report says Rock Creek Academy, special education school in D.C., violated rules
- Henderson calls white enrollment growth good for D.C. schools
- DCPS shows ‘great leadership’ in effort to change school culture for LGBTQ students
- D.C. schools criticized over closure of parent-family centers
- Were Rock Creek kids ill-served by DCPS?
- Lights back on at all but one school
- Irene-related outages keep 14 D.C. schools closed today
- D.C. schools batten down for Irene
- D.C. schools batten down for Irene
- Earthquake: A view from the principal’s office
- D.C. schools batten down for Irene
- D.C. schools batten down for Irene
- New Woodson a symbol of hope and budget politics
- Not all D.C. schools evacuated after quake
- Gray: Most, but likely not all, schools to open Thurs.
- After quake, Washington-area schools undergo inspections
- Partial list of charter school closings
- Some D.C. and Prince George’s schools await inspections
- D.C. charter schools have a ‘voice at the table’
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