Students were required to simulate moving through the Underground Railroad.
Three years after the calendar was adopted at 13 schools to spur academic performance, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and acting D.C. Public Schools chancellor Lewis. D. Ferebee said attendance rates at the schools are poor, teacher burnout is high and academic improvements have been insignificant.
Republican House Speaker M. Kirkland Cox wants a bipartisan panel with some subpoena power to look into sexual assault accusations against Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax.
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Transgender migrants like Fabiola — who walked 1,800 miles to reach a place she could call home — are escaping one of the bloodiest places in the world for them.
Peter Bang leaves federal court in Greenbelt, Md., Nov. 16, 2018.( Lynh Bui/The Post)
Fake invoices, gambling debt: Inside an employee’s $6.7 million heist from Montgomery County coffers
Peter Bang’s theft stands out both for the magnitude of the losses and the length of time it went on, said the chief executive of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Bang is set to be sentenced Friday.
Professional mermaids are traveling from as far as Hawaii and Australia to attend the inaugural convention this weekend in Northern Virginia, but the merely mer-curious are also welcome.
Christopher P. Hasson is detained while the government weighs additional charges on accusations he amassed weapons preparing for attacks on politicians and journalists.
“It’s not the way we should be going about our politics,” the two-term Republican governor told Politico.
The Bay Area strike marks at least the fifth major teacher protest this year.
Nicholas Young will get a new sentencing hearing, an appeals court ruled.
Police charged the suspect with striking a uniformed Secret Service agent.
Advocates vow revenge at the ballot box in November elections.
Cloudier skies are a good bet. Having anything fall from them is less certain.
The county would cut some jobs and add others to prepare for Amazon’s arrival.
Miller calls on Gov. Larry Hogan to put an end to the 13-year-old lawsuit over inequality in public higher education.
Wednesday's storm had it all. There are reasons for that.
If it wasn't clear before, bike lanes are for cyclists only.
Guidelines call for a sentence of roughly two decades in prison.
The crash occurred north of Fort Totten on North Capitol Street Wednesday evening.
Yext, a publicly-traded firm that specializes in what it calls digital knowledge management software, announced plans Thursday to open an engineering center in Rosslyn.
A daddy bald eagle is missing, two suitors showed up and mama bald eagle has taken long breaks from incubating two eggs at a nest in Southwest Washington.