<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - School Pictures</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/education/specials/schoolpictures?nav=rss_education/specials/schoolpictures</link><description>School Pictures</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[What the District's Students Breathe]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12977-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_education/specials/schoolpictures</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12977-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_education/specials/schoolpictures</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:54 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[At Walker-Jones Elementary School, about a block from where the D.C. Board of Education meets, irritants such as pigeon and rodent droppings and mold fouled the air so much that earlier this  school year the principal and others took to wearing face masks to protect their health.]]></description><author> Valerie Strauss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newer Building, Brighter Attitude]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19239-2004Dec22.html?nav=rss_education/specials/schoolpictures</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19239-2004Dec22.html?nav=rss_education/specials/schoolpictures</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:54 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[D.C. fifth-grader Patrice Young doesn't need a research study to illustrate the contrast between going to school in a dim and dirty building and in a well-lighted, clean one. She knows from experience.]]></description><author> Valerie Strauss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failing Windows Offer a Sorry View]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25295-2004Dec1.html?nav=rss_education/specials/schoolpictures</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25295-2004Dec1.html?nav=rss_education/specials/schoolpictures</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:54 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Difficulties that D.C. schools have encountered while trying to get windows replaced underscores a key problem with facilities management, activists say.]]></description><author> Valerie Strauss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Coolidge, the Flaws Run Deep]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57498-2004Nov17.html?nav=rss_education/specials/schoolpictures</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57498-2004Nov17.html?nav=rss_education/specials/schoolpictures</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:54 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Calvin Coolidge still has asbestos in its walls, and the electrical wiring is original and blows out lightbulbs as fast as janitors can put them in.]]></description><author> Valerie Strauss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[One School Tells a System's Torment]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39839-2004Nov10.html?nav=rss_education/specials/schoolpictures</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39839-2004Nov10.html?nav=rss_education/specials/schoolpictures</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:07:54 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Clifford B. Janey has seen some seriously degraded school buildings around the country, he said, but a tour of D.C.'s Bruce-Monroe Elementary School still gave him a shock.]]></description><author> Valerie Strauss</author></item></channel></rss>