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Montgomery Co. Council rethinking police in schools 03/06/2021 03:48pm • Montgomery County, Maryland, is the latest to push forward with a proposal to end the school resource officer program, which would remove police officers from school buildings. The SRO program has come under increasing scrutiny as communities rethink the presence of police in schools. This follow Even post-pandemic, distance learning may stick around for DC public schools 03/06/2021 10:10am • Some pandemic-related changes could stick around at D.C. Public Schools moving forward. Even post-pandemic, distance learning may not be thing of the past. School systems throughout the region are working to get more kids back in the classroom before the school year is over. The general con DC Public Schools details in-person learning and activities for the year 03/05/2021 10:53pm • D.C.'s public school system has welcomed back thousands of students to its classrooms in recent weeks, but that only accounts for about 20% of its overall student population. Now, the District of Columbia Public Schools is already charging ahead with plans to expand that number in the coming week Pandemic fueled a spike in DC consumer complaints in 2020 03/05/2021 03:27pm • While COVID-19 cases surged in the city, the consumer protection division at D.C.'s attorney general’s office saw a surge in complaints from consumers. The office said in its Consumer Complaint Report for 2020 that it saw 2,264 complaints come in — an increase of more than 700 complaints over Review: 'Raya and the Last Dragon' mixes magical animation, timely themes 03/05/2021 01:39am • Animated character Raya, voiced by Kelly Marie Tran, left, appears with Sisu the dragon in a scene from "Raya and the Last Dragon." (Disney+ via AP) When Disney wishes upon a streaming star, it makes no difference where theaters are. "Raya and the Last Dragon" opens theatrically on Friday 'Meet people where they are': Md. COVID-19 vaccine equity plan envisions small pop-up clinics at churches, community groups 03/04/2021 10:17pm • Brig. Gen. Janeen Birckhead, the Maryland National Guard's assistant adjutant general, outlines plans to improve equity in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in Maryland during a news conference in Annapolis, Md., on Thursday, March 4, 2021. Gov. Larry Hogan is standing left. (AP Photo/Brian Wit DC mayor details plans for return of high school sports, expands vaccine eligibility 03/04/2021 06:36pm • Now with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the mix, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said all teachers and staff working for a school or child care facility, including those who aren't teaching in person, will be eligible to preregister for a vaccine appointment starting next week. Bowser said over 3, Mixed reaction to DC mayor's 'tentative' plan for return to high school sports 03/04/2021 05:16pm • While all 50 states have reinstated some high school sports, D.C. hasn't. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday announced that will change in two weeks with a "tentative plan" to return teens to practice, but some think the lifting of the restrictions falls short. "So let me be perfectly candid that we DC teachers' union announces COVID-19 'situation room' 03/03/2021 03:17pm • The Washington Teachers' Union will have a coordinated "situation room" with D.C. Public Schools designed to immediately respond to coronavirus-related issues at District schools. WTU President Elizabeth Davis spoke about the situation room during an online address to teachers and parents Tuesday Bill letting schools offer telehealth advances 03/03/2021 01:30pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. An emergency measure, already approved in the Senate, to allow each of Maryland’s 86 school-based health centers to offer telehealth was 2 Black activists on what changed in 2020 — and what didn't 03/03/2021 12:04pm • Last year saw the kind of attention, discussion and consciousness regarding race in America, and the D.C. area, that doesn’t come along very often. But how much momentum was there toward real change? And what can people do to maintain it? Two leaders in the D.C. Black community spoke with WT Northern Va. teacher resigns after video discussing Capitol riot 03/03/2021 10:18am • A Northern Virginia middle school teacher, who reportedly told students he was at the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, has resigned. Benjamin Plummer, a teacher and soccer coach at Fred Lynn Middle School, in Woodbridge, was placed on leave in mid-January. A video circulating on social media appea Montgomery County students, parents weigh in on school resource officers 03/03/2021 06:46am • Parents and students voiced their concerns and support for school resource officers before the Montgomery County Board of Education as Maryland's largest school system reviews whether the policing program should continue. Kelly Ji is a junior at Thomas Wootton High School and spoke Tuesday night Thousands of DC-region students start phased return to classrooms 03/01/2021 06:19am • Thousands of students in the WTOP listening area will return to classrooms Monday morning, marking a small but significant step toward normalcy almost exactly a year since the region saw its first coronavirus outbreak. Students whose parents opted for a hybrid learning model in five Washington an Why kids are hitting the pandemic wall 03/01/2021 04:14am • After almost a full year of grappling with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, including nearly nine months of virtual school, 11-year-old London Loree simply has had enough. Enough of Zoom classes and technology fails. Enough of social distancing. Enough of all of it.