RECIPIENT OF THE DC BLACK MBA ASSOCIATION 2023 LEGACY AWARD
Serving Our Community in the DMV
Vol 59 No 21... March 7 - 13, 2024
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The D.C. Council Approves Secure DC Omnibus Package Grassroots Organizers Question Councilmember Pinto’s Community Engagement By Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer
5 More than 100 community activists descended upon the John A. Wilson Building on Tuesday, March 5, when the D.C. Council unanimously approved the Secure DC Omnibus Amendment Act during the second reading of the bill. (Ja’Mon Jackson/The Washington Informer)
As many expected, the D.C. Council approved the Secure DC Omnibus Amendment Act on Tuesday during the second reading of the bill. D.C. Councilmember Trayon White (D-Ward 8) stood as the sole “present” vote. Subsequently, unanimous approval of accompanying emergency legislation paved the way for the Secure DC’s prompt implementation. Again, Ward 8 Councilmember White voted “present.” In the moments before making these votes, White reflected on his
Athletic Trainer Shortage Dominates Teacher Contract Negotiations y Sam P.K. Collins B WI Staff Writer Contract negotiations between the Washington Teachers’ Union (WTU) and D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) have touched on a bevy of issues, but none more frequently than school safety. It’s a particularly crucial subject for
14 DCPS athletic trainers who are overextended by their obligations to a student-athlete population that has tripled in the last 32 years. Failing to hire more athletic trainers, WTU collective bargaining team members say, poses dangerous, and even potentially deadly, consequences for student-athletes. Even so, the collective bargaining team has had little success in negotiating an expansion of the athletic trainer workforce. A DCPS employee who’s familiar with the contract negotia-
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coming of age and the effects of mass incarceration on Black families. He told his colleagues that successfully curbing crime means addressing its underlying causes, not further criminalizing the marginalized masses. “Most of my friends didn’t make it because of the absence of leadership in our community [that was caused by] incarceration,” White said on Tuesday. “We haven’t done enough to address public safety in this city. I introduced [legislation] for returning citizens and it’s sitting on the shelf,” White continued. “I introduced record sealing and it’s sitting on the shelf.
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At-large D.C. Council Primary Race Lifts Up a Mandate for Vocational Education
By Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer
This election season, incumbents and challengers alike are mulling how best to curb the violent crime that has the District under siege and adults scared of young people. That debate continues to take shape inside and outside the John A. Wilson Building as D.C. Councilmember Robert White (D-At large) and 5At-Large D.C. Councilmember Robert White (D) announced three Rodney “Red” Grant tout vocational training as a bills to proactively stop crime on the steps of the John A. Wilson Building crime prevention tool. in Northwest, with organizers such as activist Tony Lewis, Jr. and Samantha Paige Davis of Black Swan Academy. (Cleveland Nelson/The Washington Informer)
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