COUNCIL MEMBER ROBERT WHITE ON DC EDUCATION MATTERS: MARCH 12
On Thursday March 12 on Education Town Hall, we will be joined in studio by At-Large DC Council Member Robert White, who has been on the Committee on Education since he was elected to the Council in 2016.
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Council Member White has pursued a number of legislative efforts regarding DC public education, including
- introducing legislation to allow students to graduate when rules for graduating were changed mid-year;
- pursuing questions of renovation and modernization funding ;
- attempting to ensure different oversight of OSSE, DC’s Office of State Superintendent of Education;
- calling for an independent investigation of all publicly funded schools in the wake of a graduation scandal.
More recently, White has introduced legislation to stop the closure of alternative high school Washington Met and to more fulsomely address the presence of lead on school playgrounds.
Now that the Committee on Education’s chair, David Grosso, is leaving the Council, the question in everyone’s mind is: Will Robert White be the next chair of that important committee, which has oversight of the nearly $2 billion spent annually on DC’s public schools?
Join us to find out more!
The Education Town Hall with Thomas Byrd broadcasts from Historic Anacostia in Washington, DC, on We Act Radio. Valerie Jablow, local education advocate and DCPS parent, co-hosts.
