Many D.C.-area nursing home workers are declining vaccines
Rachel Chason, Rebecca Tan, Jenna Portnoy and Erin Cox, The Washington Post
Jan. 27, 2021
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WASHINGTON - A large percentage of nursing home workers in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia have declined to take the coronavirus vaccine, officials say, presenting a major challenge in the region s plans to protect its most vulnerable residents.
Nursing home workers were first offered the vaccine in late December and early January, along with residents of long-term care facilities and other health-care workers. Their wariness, providers and union representatives say, is fueled by online misinformation about the vaccine and historical mistrust of the medical system of which they are a part.
D.C. developer gets last-minute pardon from Trump
Jonathan O Connell, The Washington Post
Jan. 20, 2021
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Douglas Jemal, founder and president of Douglas Development, photographed in Washington on August 24, 2017.Washington Post photo by Marvin Joseph
Cowboy boot-wearing Washington D.C. real estate magnate Douglas Jemal was among those pardoned by President Donald Trump late Tuesday, absolving him of a 2007 conviction for wire fraud.
Jemal, 79, is one of the most influential and flamboyant developers in the nation s capital, having rebuilt big chunks of downtown, Columbia Heights and New York Avenue NE.
In a statement announcing the pardons early Wednesday, the White House said Jemal was credited with rebuilding many urban inner cities and said he was instrumental to various other charitable causes.
How D.C. and its teachers, with shifting plans and demands, failed to reopen schools
Perry Stein and Laura Meckler, The Washington Post
Jan. 2, 2021
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Chancellor Lewis Ferebee, left, and Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, right, tour Shepherd Elementary School in the District of Columbia on Nov. 10, 2020.Washington Post photo by Marvin Joseph
WASHINGTON - Online classes in the District of Columbia in spring had been a disaster. Thousands of students didn t have computers or reliable WiFi. Many were falling behind. So as spring gave way to summer, Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, was determined to open schools again.
By mid-July, she had a plan. But it depended on cooperation of the teachers, and their union responded with protests.
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.