Education Policy Initiative Director Chelsea Coffin is giving testimony on July 13, 2018 at the public hearing on Bill 22-776, District…
In “The Great Sort: Part I,” I documented the increasing economic segregation within the Black community in the Metropolitan Washington…
In late 2015, Washington, D.C. joined the international Vision Zero movement by committing to end traffic deaths and serious injuries…
D.C. has a complicated relationship with speed cameras. Research shows that speed cameras are an important tool to reduce crashes…
I spent much of the 1960s as a full-time civil rights worker. From shortly after the great March on Washington…
D.C. has a reputation as a relatively young city; TIME magazine even recently declared that it the District is approaching…
As an addendum to D.C. needs research for school improvement and audits for oversight, but not from the same source, the D.C….
Summers in D.C. are infamously muggy, a wretched heat that’s compounded by oppressive humidity. Even within the District’s borders, however,…
Last spring, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) began circulating a carbon tax proposal that would impose a gradually increasing tax on…
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