In This Issue
What's Happening in DCPS
In the Teachers' Lounge
News You Should Know
Teacher Tools
 
  
WTU ANNIVERSARY:
45th Anniversary & Scholarship Gala



ASSEMBLY MEETING:
Building Representative Assembly Meeting

Tuesday, April 9th
4:30 p.m.
McKinley Tech High School
EDUCATION EVENT:
Occupy DOE 2.0:
The Battle for Public Schools

When: April 4-7
Where: U.S. Department of Education

 
Travel to the North Africa/Middle East this Summer!
 
 
Calling all middle school and early high school STEM teachers. We're looking for teachers to travel with 7th, 8th and 9th grade students to North Africa or the Middle East this summer.  
 
For more information contact:
Erin Lawless, 202-293-8612, elawless@wtulocal6.net.
WHAT'S HAPPENING IN DCPS
D.C. Council committee approves amended truancy bill


By: Emma Brown

A bill meant to curb the District's rampant truancy moved forward in the D.C. Council on Wednesday after its sponsor stripped out a controversial provision that would have mandated criminal prosecution of parents of chronically absent children.

The council's Education Committee voted unanimously in favor of the amended bill, which specifies how and when a student's unexcused absences would trigger the notification of parents and government intervention.
 
NEWS YOU SHOULD KNOW
A Look at Last Week's Most Relevant News and Information
LOCAL: 

 
 
 
  

Report: D.C. lacks plan for school buildings

 

D.C. school facilities plan considers charters for the first time

 

Addressing D.C.'s truancy epidemic

 

David Pinder, D.C. principal of the year, resigns

 

D.C. parents fight arts budget cuts

  

 
OPPORTUNITIES & TRAININGS

Catherine B. Reynolds Civil War Washington Teacher Fellows

 

Join up to 20 teachers to learn about Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Washington during the Civil War as you spend a day at each of these fascinating sites! 

When: Sunday, June 23 to Friday, June 28, 2013. 
 
As part of our six-day program, you will visit Ford's Theatre, Tudor Place Historic House and Gargen and the home of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

Deadline: April 12th

 

To apply click here: 

http://www.fords.org/home/education/teacher-programs/teacher-fellows