Students Counsel DC City Council on DCPS Budget
Friday April 10, 2009
Students delivered a powerful message to City Council- We need more Guidance Counselors.
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Teachers and Parents List Needs at Hearing
Friday November 16, 2007
At Hart Middle School in Southeast, students have a shortage of science textbooks and sit in classrooms with peeling paint. There aren't enough guidance counselors at Dunbar in Northwest and other senior high schools.
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D.C. youths versus mayor
Thursday August 24, 2006
More than 70 Washington, D.C. youths gathered downtown yesterday morning to protest emergency laws that they say unfairly penalize them for the city’s recent rise in crime.
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D.C. Crime Response
Seen Having Political Edge
Friday July 21, 2006
MELISSA BLOCK, host: A new joint task force is being formed to tackle violent crime in the nation's capital. It's a joint effort of the federal and city governments and it's the latest response to what the city has declared as a crime emergency. NPR's Libby Lewis reports.