The stark racial divide among parents on who is comfortable sending their children to school for in-person or hybrid learning is just another, entirely predictable result of the prominent divide between white and Black America. And here in DC is no different. As DC Public Schools opened this month for about 8,500 students — and […]

Ward 8

My children’s schooling has always been one of my top priorities, and I work hard to build a rapport with their teachers each new year by visiting their Washington, D.C., schools regularly. Forging those relationships is no small task for my family: I co-parent my four children, in grades high school down to prekindergarten, with […]

Ward 8

For my five children, my husband and I made the decision to homeschool. We had considered homeschooling before the pandemic, and with the onset of the pandemic, virtual learning in my house meant constant calls from five teachers, managing five children’s differing schedules, and too much learning on a screen. We decided it was time […]

Ward 7

We already lived in a cold house with a leaking roof, moldy walls, peeling paint, and no home cooking because the oven hasn’t worked in years, and now we had to spend long days in these horrid conditions. That’s how homeschooling and quarantine began in March 2020 for my five children and me. Most of […]

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Wednesday, January 27th, 2021 2 pm – 3 pm PAVE parent leaders sit down with At-Large Councilmember Silverman to highlight the issues parents have identified in their updated #DCSchoolsRecovery Statement of Beliefs. Watch the full meeting HERE Full Agenda with chat questions

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NOTE: This blog is translated in both Spanish and English. Scroll down to read the blog in English.  El impacto que ha tenido la pandemia en las escuelas va más allá del aula virtual. Como madre de tres hijas con diferentes necesidades, siento que nuestro precario sistema educativo no ha sabido darle el apoyo necesario […]

Ward 5

2020 was too much death. Since the beginning of the pandemic, I’ve lost three uncles, one of whom was like a father to me. My life felt like it ended with his passing. I received the call that he died at 4:00 a.m, yet the last time I had spoken with him was just 15 […]

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