Unique Harris disappearance: Man charged with murder a decade after woman goes missing Peter Hermann, Paul M. Duggan For 10 years, police investigating the disappearance of Unique Harris slowly assembled scraps of evidence. DNA from a couch. Stories from a companion of the victim that didn’t add up. A jailhouse informant who heard talk of a missing girl. The fuzzy recollections of a child. For detectives who had chased a slew of false sightings and leads, including someone who claimed to have kidnapped Harris and demanded a ransom for her return, those scraps finally came together into a cohesive, tragic story.
D.C. and teachers union reach deal on how to reopen school buildings, capping months of contentious debate Perry Stein The District’s public school system and the Washington Teachers’ Union reached a deal late Thursday on how to reopen schools, capping months of contentious negotiations in a city that has so far been unable to bring teachers and students back together in classrooms. The deal settles a major dispute that has held up previous agreements: Teachers who do not have medical exemptions may be required to go back to classrooms, even if they do not want to. D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Lewis D. Ferebee and Washington Teachers’ Union President Elizabeth Davis signed the agreement, according to announcements from the city and union.
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Report finds new AP computer science course is diversifying the field
Nick Anderson, The Washington Post
Dec. 13, 2020
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Students, from left to right, Ian Mwangi, Matthew Watkins, Dejai Brown and Myke l Rodgers work on a project in a computer science principles course in December 2017 at Flowers High School in Prince George s County, Md.Washington Post photo by Marvin Joseph
Four years ago, high schools across America launched an advanced placement course introducing students to the principles of computer science in an effort geared in part toward bringing more female, Black and Latino students into a field where they have long been underrepresented.
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