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SCHOOLS
Risk Label Irks Norton
The U.S. Department of Education's declaring the D.C. school system at "high risk" for mismanaging federal funds was a "stunt," Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) said yesterday. At a hearing of the House Committee on Government Reform, Norton asked for " some designation short of that."
In a letter to Superintendent Clifford B. Janey, department officials said $120 million in federal money -- about 14 percent of the budget -- is jeopardized by weaknesses in the school system.
Hudson La Force III, senior counselor to Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, said the system did not respond to repeated requests for audits.
-- V. Dion Haynes
CRIME
4 Shootings Investigated
Four people were shot and at least one person was stabbed in a two-hour period last night, D.C. police said.
Two people were shot about 11 p.m. at Seventh and N streets NW, and two were shot before midnight in the 1700 block of T Street SE. The stabbing occurred about 10 p.m. on Mount Pleasant Street NW, police said. They were investigating whether an assault on Birney Place SE also involved a stabbing.
-- Clarence Williams and Martin Weil
HOUSING
HUD Backs Off Evictions
Federal housing officials are reconsidering plans to yank the rent contract at a run-down housing complex 10 blocks north of the U.S. Capitol and are working with D.C. officials to avoid evicting 211 low-income families, a spokesman said yesterday.
Jerry Brown, of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, said HUD officials met yesterday with Deputy Mayor Stanley Jackson to discuss alternatives to shuttering the Temple Courts complex, which has repeatedly failed health and safety inspections.
"We really, really want to preserve the affordable housing," Brown said. "It's about lives."
-- Lori Montgomery
FBI washington office
Longtime Agent Retires
Ronald Nesbitt, special agent in charge of counterintelligence for the FBI's Washington field office, retired yesterday. He handled many high-profile probes in 31 years at the FBI.
-- Allan Lengel
