Nebraska Wesleyan University (NWU) is a private Methodist-affiliated university in Lincoln,Nebraska. It was founded in 1887 by Nebraska Methodists. As of 2017,it had approximately 2,100 students including 1,500 full-time students and 300 faculty and staff. The university has 119 undergraduate majors,minors,and pre-professional programs in addition to three graduate programs.
Friends University is a private nondenominational Christian university in Wichita,Kansas,United States. It was founded in 1898. The main building was originally built in 1886 for Garfield University but was donated in 1898 to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) by James Davis,a St. Louis business man. In the 1930s the leadership of the school was turned over to an independent board of trustees,with some representation of the Mid-America Yearly Meeting of Friends on the board. It operates today with "an amicable but independent relationship with the evangelical branch of the Society of Friends."
Oakland Unified School District is a public education school district that operates a total of 80 elementary schools (TK–5),middle schools (6–8),and high schools (9–12). There are also 28 district-authorized charter schools in Oakland,California,United States,serving a total of 48,704 students across both district-run and district-authorized charter schools.
The District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) is the local public school system for Washington,D.C. It is distinct from the District of Columbia Public Charter Schools (DCPCS),which governs public charter schools in the city.
The School District No. 1 in the City and County of Denver and State of Colorado,more commonly known as Denver Public Schools (DPS),is the public school system in the City and County of Denver,Colorado,United States.
School Without Walls High School (SWW) is a small public magnet high school in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington,D.C. It is colloquially referred to by students and faculty as "Walls." The school is based on a concept in urban education that encourages students to "use the city as a classroom," which is the origin of its name.
Montbello is a neighborhood of Denver,Colorado,located in the far northeast of the city. It is bounded on its north side by E 56th Avenue and the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge,on its south side by the I-70/I-225 junction,by Peoria Street on its western confine and Chambers Road on its east.
Jackson-Reed High School is a public high school in Washington,D.C. It serves grades 9 through 12 as part of the District of Columbia Public Schools. The school sits in the Tenleytown neighborhood,at the intersection of Chesapeake Street and Nebraska Avenue NW. It primarily serves students in Washington's Ward 3,but nearly 30% of the student body lives outside the school's boundaries.
Wichita Falls Independent School District(WFISD) is a public school district based in Wichita Falls,Texas,United States and is accredited by the Texas Education Agency.
Michelle Ann Rhee is an American educator and advocate for education reform. She was Chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools from 2007 to 2010. In late 2010,she founded StudentsFirst,a non-profit organization that works on education reform.
Duval County Public Schools (DCPS) is the public school district that serves the families and children residing in the urban,suburban,and rural areas of the City of Jacksonville and Duval County,Florida. As of 2015,the district had an enrollment of over 130,000 students,making it the 20th largest school district in the United States,and the 6th largest school district in Florida. The district's 196 schools are traditional neighborhood and magnet schools,charter schools,and alternative schools,all of which serve students of various needs.
Muriel Elizabeth Bowser is an American politician who has served as the mayor of the District of Columbia since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party,she previously represented the 4th ward as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia from 2007 to 2015. She is the second female mayor of the District of Columbia after Sharon Pratt,and the first woman to be reelected to that position.
The District of Columbia School Reform Act of 1995 was passed by the United States Congress. Since Washington,D.C.,is a semi-autonomous non-state,Congress has jurisdiction over the city and passed the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996. Title I amended the D.C. School Reform Act in 1995,making charter schools part of the public-education system in Washington. Unlike the states,the District of Columbia had relatively little opposition to charter schools from politicians and the public;what opposition existed was not firmly entrenched due to controversy within the union. A strong advocate in getting the act passed was the advocacy group Friends of Choice in Urban Schools (FOCUS),which continues to lobby for charter schools in the district. The act created the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board (PCSB) as the city's second,independent authorizer of public charter schools in the city. Board members are nominated by the mayor of Washington,D.C.,and approved by the DC Council. In 2006,the D.C. Board of Education voted to relinquish its charter-authorizing authority.
David Grosso is an American attorney and politician. He is a former at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia who lives in Brookland. A native Washingtonian,he graduated from Earlham College and Georgetown University Law Center. Grosso is a member of the D.C. Bar. Following the completion of his second term on the D.C. Council,he joined the law firm Arent Fox as a lobbyist.
Ruth Burnett Love,also known as Ruth B. Love-Holloway was an American educator,education administrator,author and former schools superintendent. Love was formerly a professor of education at her college alma mater San Francisco State University. Love served as superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District from November 1975 until February 1981 and the Chicago Public Schools from March 1981 until March 1985. Love was the first African-American to serve as superintendent for the Chicago Public Schools district. In 1983,Love received the Horatio Alger Award and a Candace Award for Education from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women. Love was named as one among 100 of the best school managers in North America by Educator Magazine in 1984.
The District of Columbia State Board of Education (SBOE) is an independent executive branch agency of the Government of the District of Columbia,in the United States. The SBOE provides advocacy and policy guidance for the District of Columbia Public Schools,and works with the Chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools and the District of Columbia State Superintendent of Education. Charter schools are overseen by the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board.
Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School is a charter school for adults in Washington D.C.
Howard Dilworth Woodson High School is a secondary school in Washington,D.C. that serves grades 9 through 12. It is located in the Northeast Boundary neighborhood,at the intersection of 55th and Eads Streets NE. It is a part of the District of Columbia Public Schools and primarily serves students in Ward 7. The current principal is William Massey.
Christopher D. Cerf is an American education administrator and attorney who previously served as the state-appointed Superintendent of the Newark Public Schools in New Jersey.
Lewis D. Ferebee is an American educator serving as the chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools since 2019. He was superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools from 2013 to 2018. Ferebee was previously the chief of staff for Durham Public Schools for three years.
