Data released by the District of Columbia shows that an insufficient amount of students in the city attend their assigned public schools. Roughly one quarter of students in
DC Councilmember David A. Catania is proposing a bill that would hold parents liable to prosecution if their children miss twenty or more days of school. The bill
October 27, 2010
Adam Arnold
Staff Writer
The Nation
“Democracy will fail if the people are ignorant,” says Kevin P. Chavous, paraphrasing a Jeffersonian truism. Beyond his long career