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'There's a huge failure here': Montgomery Co. Council on handling of principal's misconduct complaints 09/28/2023 10:15pm • Montgomery County Council members are calling on the county’s schools superintendent and Board of Education president to release more information on how allegations of misconduct are handled. Specifically, the council members said they want a report on allegations of bullying and sexual harassm Child Care at a Crossroads: COVID pandemic exacerbated decline in DC-area child care facilities 09/28/2023 05:03am • The number of child care providers, especially in-home child care providers, was on a steady decline before the pandemic. But the pandemic only exacerbated the problem, driving some out of business while dissuading others from starting new child care businesses, since no one wanted extra people insi Child Care at a Crossroads: Finding child care is already difficult and expensive — and it’s about to get worse 09/27/2023 05:08am • You would think with all the money parents have to pay for child care — it can easily add up to or even surpass the cost of a monthly mortgage payment — that the child care industry would be a lucrative career field for the people who work in it. But it’s not. In fact, at the same time, 3 bullets lodged in classrooms, no one injured at elementary school after Southeast DC shooting 09/26/2023 11:08am • Gunfire that struck an elementary school in Southeast D.C. sent students into a lockdown on Monday afternoon, according to the school's principal. Two classrooms at Stanton Elementary School were struck by bullets but no one was injured, according to a letter the school's principal wrote to paren This CFO wants more Black women on corporate boards — and she's taking action through film 09/24/2023 11:01am • A new movie, co-produced by a film maker with ties to the D.C. area, explores the importance of having African American women on corporate boards and how overall board diversity influences the C-suites of major companies. OnBoard the Film is currently making rounds on the festival circuit and gener WTOP Book Report: Memoir recounts mother's journey raising transgender daughter, twin brother 09/24/2023 05:15am • This story was written as part of the WTOP Book Report series authored by Terik King. Read more of that coverage.  Imagine you're in your early 40s, and after struggling through two years and seven rounds of fertility treatments, you become the mother of twin sons. But one of your children What parents should know about young kids getting the new COVID booster 09/23/2023 05:06am • The new COVID-19 booster shot is safe for young kids and infants, according to Dr. Sarah Combs with the Children's National Hospital in D.C. "We are seeing a lot of children coming through the doors with respiratory illnesses, so I will say top of mind for a lot of parents right now is 'how can I CDC recommends Pfizer's RSV vaccine during pregnancy 09/22/2023 11:01pm • ▶ Watch Video: CDC recommends first-ever RSV vaccine during pregnancy An advisory panel for the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention on Friday recommended that a vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, be given during pregnancy, providing an extra level of protection Review: Not even Kaitlyn Dever can save Hulu's alien-invasion flick 'No One Will Save You' 09/22/2023 02:40pm • Around this same time last year, 20th Century Studios released the excellent "Predator" prequel "Prey" (2022), providing a near-perfect example of a rugged hero battling an alien invader for a badass Hulu Original Film. This Friday, the same studio-to-streamer team drops a less effective exam Improving school readiness in Prince George's Co. children, through song 09/22/2023 12:49pm • Every Friday morning at the Hyattsville Branch Library, more than a dozen kids who are roughly around preschool age gather for story time. Each half-hour session starts and ends not with books, but songs. There's also movement and interaction, too, because the effort to get children ready to lear Author Javier Zamora explores his immigrant journey to the US as a 9-year-old boy in 'Solito' 09/22/2023 06:02am • In 1999, Javier Zamora began his journey to the U.S. at 9 years old. The young boy from La Herradura, El Salvador, lived with his grandparents after his mother and father fled the country at different stages of his early childhood. His parents wanted to reunite with their son, but the journey was no Player of the Week: Chantilly's Avery Chow 09/22/2023 05:01am • Each week, WTOP is picking one student athlete to be featured on air and online as our Player of the Week. This week’s WTOP Player of the Week is Avery Chow of Chantilly High School in Chantilly, Virginia. Chow is a senior at Chantilly and has played football for the school since his freshman y Prince William Co. reports rise in students using e-cigarettes, marijuana 09/21/2023 11:22pm • The number of Prince William County, Virginia, students with a documented behavior violation for use of a prohibited substance more than doubled last year compared to before the pandemic, county officials told the school board this week. In the 2022-23 school year, there were 1,800 students with NBA superstar Kevin Durant puts his name on Bowie State's basketball court 09/21/2023 01:08pm • Prince George’s County, Maryland, native and NBA superstar Kevin Durant played his college ball at the University of Texas, but for years as a kid, his family would come to the campus of Bowie State University for youth games and tournaments. After pledging to help remodel the gym at Ma Why Arlington Co.'s libraries will declare themselves book sanctuaries 09/21/2023 11:20am • Many libraries across the country are getting ready to observe Banned Books Week from Oct. 1-7, but Arlington County, Virginia, has plans to go one step further. Library Director Diane Kresh said, thankfully, controversy over books is not a big issue in Arlington. "To me, that makes the onus a