Education

The Healthy Students Amendment Act of 2018, which will enable D.C. to implement the Good Food Purchasing Program (GFPP), has been passed by the Council of the District of Columbia on Tuesday.

A recent report titled “2018 Healthy Schools Act Report” issued by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education has revealed that the D.C. schools have failed to meet the city’s physical education and activity requirements for students.

A new public schools chancellor for D.C. is likely to be appointed soon as Mayor Muriel Bowser is planning to reconvene the panel advising her on a chancellor’s selection.

As part of a new policy for 2018-19, D.C. will soon have students registering as non-binary on enrolment forms as the city widens options of gender beyond just male and female.

A new school for military families will be opened in 2020-21 on the Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB), a Navy, Air Force base housing over 1,200 school children, following it’s approved by DC Public Charter School Board.

Janie Creswell, a 90-year-old foster grandmother has been attending Friendship Public Charter School in Northeast D.C. eight hours a day, five days a week. Greswell has been a regular volunteer for 26 years, spending time in various D.C. schools through the United Planning Organization (UPO) Foster Grandparent Program.

The highest attendance rates of 99.8 percent in the city for the 2017-2018 school year has been reported by Friendship Public Charter School Online in Washington. D.C. It is the only K-8 tuition-free virtual School in the district to record such high attendance rates.

SunTrust Bank’s education practice group has announced a loan of $141 million to Georgetown Day School for building its new 155,000-square-foot campus, according to a press release from the private school in Washington, D.C.