Dozens of members of the public, teachers, former students and police officers shared their feelings about the presence of police in D.C. public schools as District leaders listened.
The Council of the Whole held a more than five-hour-long hearing Wednesday to listen to school stakeholders about their thoughts on the recommendations of the D.C. Police Reform Commission, which issued its report two weeks ago.
The report, which took seven months to prepare contained more than 90 recommendations calling for, among other things, a reduction in the size of the Metropolitan Police Department and a decentralization of the police as the go-to responders for public safety.
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Our scholars deserve an opportunity: DC pioneers academy teaches students tech skills ASHLIE RODRIGUEZ | WJLA Staff
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WASHINGTON (WJLA) Digital Pioneers Academy, located on 12th street in Southeast Washington, is tuition-free and currently enrolling students for the next school year. ABC7 s Ashlie Rodriguez spoke with 14-year-old Nyhema Couser about her experience. I like computer science, Couser said. I always kind of had a passion for it building robots and seeing them move and programming it.
Couser attends with more than 350 other students, who enter as sixth graders and stay with the charter school until graduating from high school.