April 2024. Volume 10. Issue 4.
Leaders of Sustainable Living in the DMV
RECIPIENT OF THE DC BLACK MBA ASSOCIATION 2023 LEGACY AWARD
Serving Our Community in the DMV
Vol 59 No 28... April 25 - May 1, 2024
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Mayor Bowser Attacks School Budget Accountability Latest Move Follows Years of DCPS Not Following 'Schools First in Budgeting' Law By Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer
5If passed in its current form, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s pending Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Support Act will eliminate accountability measures for District education leaders, particularly regarding funds allocation originally outlined in the "Schools First in Budgeting’"Amendment Act of 2021. (WI File Photo)
The D.C. Council’s Committee of the Whole will soon deliberate on D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Support Act, which, among several other things, rolls back accountability measures that the District’s education leaders haven’t followed for two consecutive budget cycles. If the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Support Act is passed in its current form, such accountability measures,
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T.R.I.G.G.E.R. Project Founder Looks Back on ‘Past, Present and Future’
Ward 8 Residents Cry ‘Foul’ in Circulator Elimination
By James Wright WI Staff Writer
5 The DC Circulator is proposed to be cut as part of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s fiscal year 2025 Budget. (Ja’Mon Jackson/ The Washington Informer)
originally outlined in the Schools First in Budgeting Amendment Act of 2021, would no longer exist. The Schools First in Budgeting Amendment Act of 2021, approved without Bowser’s signature, requires, not only D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) Chancellor Dr. Lewis D.Ferebee’s submission of the school budget 42 days before the mayor’s budget proposal, but the funding of each public school at levels no lower than what they received during the last fiscal year.
Deborah Jackson lives in an apartment complex not far from the Anacostia Metro Station in Ward 8 in Southeast. She doesn’t own a car so she uses the DC Circulator bus system—she hops on at the Anacostia Metro-- when she can go shopping, visit friends or attend church. She will also utilize the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) buses, if
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Office of Attorney General Funds Violence Prevention Efforts By Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer
5 Emotions run high as T.R.I.G.G.E.R. Project founder Tia Bell speaks on the reasons why she created her foundation at the Anacostia Arts Center on April 4. (Ja'Mon Jackson/The Washington Informer)
In the weeks leading up to Gun Violence Prevention Month (June), Tia Bell continues her longtime efforts to address gun violence as a public health matter, not one solely requiring police and incarceration. This summer, she’s scheduled to launch T.R.I.G.G.E.R. University, through which 125 adolescents and young adults will once again engage in six weeks of project-based learning, academic support, and workforce and socioemotional development. For Bell, this endeavor, now in its seventh year, will become a bit less cumbersome thanks, in part, to the Office
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