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• DCPS calendar for school year 2003-2004
• Directory of District of Columbia
  public schools
• Paul L. Vance, announcement of suspension of four employees, August
  5, 2003
• Resignation of Laura Gardner, appointed member, Board of Education, July
  17, 2003
• District of Columbia Auditor, “Mismanagement, Noncompliance, and
  Ineffective Internal Controls Exposed School System Funds to a
  Significant Risk of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse,” June
  16, 2003
• Committee on Education, Libraries, and Recreation public oversight
  hearing on the confirmation of Carrie Thornhill and Robin Martin as
  mayorally appointed members of the Board of Education, June 11, 2003
  • Carrie L. Thornhill
    • Carrie L. Thornhill 
    • Rolando A. Andrewn,
      CEO, American Lung Association
    • Josephine Baker,
      Executive Director, DC Public Charter School Board
    • Kathy Chamberlain,
      ANC 7B
    • Carmella Mazzotta, 
      
      Brenda Harvey, DC Voice
    • Franklin Senger,
      Hillcrest Community Civic Association
  • Robin B. Martin
    • Robin B. Martin
    • Vance Wilson,
      Headmaster, St. Albans School
  • Both candidates
    • Jesse B. Fenty
• Carrie Thornhill and Robin
  Martin appointed by Mayor to Board of Education, May 14, 2003
• Erich Martel, McKinley Technology High School, a critique, April
  16, 2003
• Russell Smith appointed executive director of the Board of Education, February
  26, 2003
• Charles R. Lawrence, III, statement resigning from the Board of
  Education, February 12, 2003
• Peggy Cooper Carfritz, statement on resignation of Charles Lawrence
  and Roger Wilkins from Board of Education, February
  12, 2003
• Roger Wilkins, letter resigning from the Board of Education, February
  5, 2003
• Installation ceremony for reelected Board of Education Members, January
  7, 2003
• Peggy Cooper Cafritz, “The Real Deal Campaign for Children,”
  inaugural address, January 7, 2003
• DC Auditor, “Mismanaged Special Education Payment System Vulnerable
  to Fraud, Waste, and Abuse,” September
  27, 2002
• District of Columbia Board of Education Votes to Ensure Balanced
  Budget, press release, June 26, 2002
• DCPS Superintendent Transforms Central Administration and Reduces
  Workforce, May 2, 2002
• Superintendent’s Office staff listing, March
  2002
• Testimony to the City Council Committee on Education, Libraries, and
  Recreation, public oversight hearing on fiscal year 2001 and 2002
  spending and program implementation for the District of Columbia Public
  Schools and public charter schools, March 8, 2002
  • Reportcard to the People, District of Columbia Public Schools SY
    2001-2002 Accomplishments
  • Testimony of Peggy Cooper Cafritz,
    President, Board of Education
  • Testimony of Steven Seleznow, acting superintendent and Chief of
    Staff, DC Public Schools
  • Testimony of DC Public Charter School
    Board, Josephine Baker,
    chair, and Thomas Loughlin, vice-chair
• Corporation Counsel’s opinion that the District of Columbia Public
  Schools violated the Home Rule Act and the Anti-Deficiency Act with
  respect to its appropriation for FY 2001, January
  28, 2002
• Williams announces nomination of Mirian Saez to the Board of
  Education, January 11, 2001
  • “Board of Education of the District of Columbia Mirian Saez
    Confirmation Resolution of 2002,” PR
    14-538
  • Testimony at the public oversight hearing on confirmation, February
    8, 2002
• Testimony to the City Council on the FY2001 budget shortfall, September
  24, 2001
  • Peggy Cooper Cafritz, School Board President
  • Paul Vance, Superintendent of Schools
  • Natwar Gandhi, Chief Financial Officer
  • John D. Catlett, Teamsters Local 639
• DCPS Faces $80 Million Budget Shortfall in fiscal year 2001, September
  6, 2001
• Paula R. Perelman, appointed Executive Secretary, DC School Board, September
  4, 2001
• Paula Perelman, memorandum to attorneys requiring negotiated attorney
  fees, August 31, 2001, along with an
  attorney’s motion for the court to set aside the memorandum, by Ronald
  Drake
• Board of Education member Bob Peck will resign to become President of
  the Greater Washington Board of Trade, August
  6, 2001
• DCPS Business Plan for Strategic Reform, Board Summary, July
  23, 2001
• The Children First Initiative, June 22, 2001
  • Press release, “DC Public Schools
    Superintendent Paul L. Vance Announced His Plans to Improve Nine
    District Schools” 
  • A Snapshot: The Children First
    Initiative: A Plan for Transforming Schools, June 21, 2001
  • Report on “Target Assisted” Reform
    Initiative: Five-Year Performance Profiles, June 2001
  • Context for Change: The Targeted
    Assistance Program, Selection Criteria for “Children First
    Schools,” and Labor/Management Relations
  • Blue Ribbon Panel Members
  • Memoranda to Staff
• DC Appleseed Center, Charter
  Schools in the District of Columbia: Improving Systems for Accountability, Autonomy, and Competition, April 30, 2001.
• Board of Education press release on Mayor’s proposed fiscal year 2002 budget for
  schools, March 13, 2001
• Public Schools A-Team Appointments, March 12, 2001
• Board of Education, “The Citizens’ Guide to the Board of Education’s FY
  2002 Proposed Budget,” February
  2001
• Initial Board Policies, Regulations, and Bylaws, January 17, 2001
• Committee Structure of the School Board, approved on January 17,
  2001
• Report of the Special Council Committee on Special Education, January
  2001
• Inspector General, Audit of the District of Columbia Public Schools Special Education
  Program, November 22, 2000
• Inspector General, Audit of Property Donated to the Government of the District of
  Columbia, IG 13-72, October 12, 2000
• Report of Elise T. Baach, Special Master for Special Education, on issues in special
  education, to US District Court Judge Friedman, September 27, 2000
• DC School Board Information Project, initial brochure, September 2000
• Résumé of Paul L. Vance, named Superintendent of Schools, June
  5, 2000
• D.C. Financial Authority Announces Names for the Educational Advisory Committee, press
  release, June 1, 2000
• Resignation of Arlene Ackerman, May 17, 2000
  • Press release
  • Letter of resignation to Control Board
  • Ackerman biography at resignation
• DCPS attempt to deny special education students compensatory education
  • Lawyer’s filing, May 14, 2000
  • Judge’s order, May 16, 2000
• Materials on school governance:
  • Campaign materials for and against the
    School Governance Charter Amendment
  • Ballot language for proposed Charter Amendment
    III, “The School Governance Charter Amendment Act of 2000,” which would enact
    Bill 13-469.
  • onlinesportsbooks.us.complaint to the Board of Elections and Ethics and the Office of Campaign
    Finance about the use of government resources in an election campaign,
    June 9, 2000
  • Corporation Counsel’s opinion that taxpayer funds, government employees,
    facilities, and supplies can be used in the election campaign for the School Governance
    Charter Amendment, May 25, 2000
  • Correspondence between the City Council and the Board of Elections and Ethics on holding
    a special election on the “School Governance Charter Amendment Act of 2000,” February 14-April 4, 2000
  • Councilmember Carol Schwartz on the mixed elected/appointed board, February 17, 2000
  • Changes in Structure of the Board of Education, comparison of the three versions of Bill
    13-496, by Councilmember Kevin Chavous’s staff, February
    17, 2000
  • Councilmember Harold Brazill Calls for School Governance Summit, press release, February 14, 2000
  • Mayor’s letter to City Council, advocating mixed elected/appointed school board, February 14, 2000
  • Mayor’s letter to City Council, opposing mixed elected/appointed school board, February 1, 2000
  • Timeline of Public School Governance in the District of Columbia, Mark David Richards, February 2000
  • Internet Resources on School Governance Issues, Mark David Richards, February 2000
  • DC Statehood Green Party Statement on School Governance, February
    2000
  • DC Voice Policy Update, January 2000
  • Coalition to Defend Our Children and Preserve Our Board of Education, flyer, January 2000
  • Citizens Committee for DC School Governance Reform (The Greater Washington Urban
    League), flyer, January 2000
  • Neighborhood Action Forum flyer (unsigned flyer mailed by Neighborhood Action), January 2000
  • Mayor’s press releases on school governance
    • January 5, 2000
    • January 13, 2000
  • D.C. Agenda, Governance Task Force for Effective Public Education, December
    1999
• Proposals for changes in school governance:
  • School Governance Charter Amendment Act of 2000 (Amendments passed in the nature of a
    substitute) — the final version, containing a mixed elected and appointed Board of
    Education, Bill 13-469
  • Board of Education Reform Amendment Act of 2000 (Mayor Williams’s bill),
    Bill 13-554
  • Board of Education Charter Reform Amendment Act of 2000 (Mayor Williams’s bill),
    Bill 13-555
  • Board of Education Charter Amendment Act of 1999 (Councilmember Ambrose’s bill),
    Bill 13-527
  • Board of Education Reform Amendment Act of 1999 (Councilmember Patterson’s bill),
    Bill 13-494
  • Board of Education Charter Reform Amendment Act of 1999 (Councilmember Patterson’s
    bill), Bill 13-493
  • DC Appleseed Center, Reforming the D.C. Board of Education: A Building Block for Better
    Public Schools, September
    1999
  • School Governance Charter Amendment Act of 2000 (Councilmember Chavous’s bill,
    enrolled version passed by City Council), Bill 13-469
  • School Governance Act of 1999 (Councilmember Chavous’s bill, Committee version),
    Bill 13-469
  • School Governance Companion Act of 1999 (Councilmember Chavous’s bill, passed by
    the City Council), Bill 13-470
  • Chart summarizing changes in the law
    proposed in PR 13-469 and PR 13-470
  • Working draft report on school governance by the Committee on Education, Libraries, and
    Recreation, October 28, 1999
  • Press release on proposed acts and report on school governance, November 1, 1999
• Inspector General, “District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) Audit of the Special
  Education Program for Fiscal Year 1998,” OIG No. 7-99GA-9916, June 25, 1999
• Testimony before the House Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on the District
  of Columbia, April 30, 1999
  • Anthony Williams, Mayor
  • Constance Newman, Vice-Chairman, DC Control Board
  • Arlene Ackerman, Superintendent, DC Public Schools
  • Maudine Cooper, Chairman, DC Public Schools Emergency
    Transitional Education Board of Trustees
• “Platform for Quality Public Education in the District of
  Columbia,” July 11, 1998, developed by citizen activists in education
• Testimony before the House Committee on Government Oversight, Subcommittee on the
  District of Columbia, August 26, 1998
  • Constance Newman, member, District of Columbia
    Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, on “Public School
    Readiness for 1998-1999 School Year”
• Testimony before the House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on the District of
  Columbia, June 24, 1998
  • Maudine R. Cooper, Chair, Emergency Transitional Education
    Board of Trustees
  • Wilma Harvey, President of the Board of Education
  • Arlene Ackerman, Superintendent, DC Public Schools;
    testimony includes
    • Citywide Stanford 9 test results and
    • DCPS Anti-Deficiency Action Plan for FY 1998
  • Josephine C. Baker, Chairperson, DC Public Charter School
    Board
  • Government Accounting Office, District of Columbia Public
    Schools, Status of Fiscal Year 1998 Roof Projects
• Resignation of the chairman of the Emergency Transitional Education Board of Trustees,
  Bruce K. MacLaury, May 26, 1996
  • Statement of Bruce K. MacLaury
  • Statement of Andrew Brimmer, Chairman of the Control Board
• Board of Education Press release criticizing the Emergency Board of Trustees’
  proposed disciplinary policy, May 4, 1998
• Emergency Transitional Education Board of Trustees Public
  Working Session, April 21, 1998
  • Resolution honoring General
    Julius Becton, Jr.
  • Capital works schedule for
    summer and fall 1998
• Resignation letter from General Julius W. Becton, April 14, 1998
• Committee on Education, Libraries, and Recreation and Parks
  Investigation on the District of Columbia Public Schools Use of Funds Resolution of 1998, April 9, 1998
• Testimony on the overcounting of students in DC public
  schools, to the House District of Columbia Subcommittee, March 13, 1998
  • George Grier, The Grier
    Partnership
  • Richard J.Wenning, Director of
    Educational Accountability, DCPS
  • Julius W. Becton, Jr.,
    CEO/Superintendent, DCPS
  • Joyce Ladner, Control Board
    Member
  • Bruce K. MacLaury, Chairman,
    Emergency Transitional Board of Trustees
  • Wilma Harvey, President, Board
    of Education
• Testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of
  Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia, March 9, 1998
  • Report
    by the GAO, "Availability of Funds and the Cost of FY 1997 Roof Projects,"
    March 1998
  • Letter
    Report by the GAO, "Availability of Funds and the Cost of FY 1997 Roof
    Projects," March 9, 1998
  • David L. Cotton on the
    Performance Audit of the Fiscal Year 1997 Capital Improvement Program Procurement Process
  • Joyce Ladner, Control Board
    member, on the state of DCPS
  • Julius Becton, DC Public
    Schools CEO/Superintendent, on the state of DCPS
• Letters on the signing bonuses and Cotton & Co. audit
  from Marion Barry to Andrew Brimmer, January 14, 1998
  • Letter by Wilma Harvey, Board of
    Education president, in response to Bruce MacLaury, February 10, 1998
  • Statement by Andrew Brimmer,
    Chairman of the Control Board, on the Board’s action to make the Emergency Board of
    Trustee’s their "agent," February 12, 1998
  • Order by the Control Board
    re-establishing the Emergency Board of Trustees, February 12, 1998
  • Statement by Delegate Eleanor
    Holmes Norton criticizing the Control Board for issuing a unilateral order, February
    12, 1998
  • Statement by Wilma Harvey,
    Board of Education president, "Control Board fails to address school governance
    issue," February 12, 1998
• Materials related to the Control Board’s reinstatement of
  the Emergency Transitional Board of Trustees
• 21st Century School Fund Press
  Package on DC School Report, January 21, 1998
• Testimony to the Senate Committee on Labor and Human
  Resources, Hearing on the Problems of the DC Public Schools, January 14, 1998:
  • Kathy Patterson, Councilmember
  • Julius W. Becton, Jr., Chief
    Executive Officer and Superintendent, DC Public Schools
  • Charles Williams, Chief
    Operating Officer, DC Public Schools
  • Philip M. Dearborn, President,
    Greater Washington Research Center
• Report by Cotton & Company,
  LL.P., Certified Public Accountants, to the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility
  and Management Assistance Authority on the District of Columbia Public Schools Performance
  Audit: Fiscal Year 1997 Capital Improvement Program Procurement Process, January 12, 1998
• 1997 Annual Report, Emergency
  Transitional Education Board of Trustees, January 1997
• Moving Toward an Exemplary System:
  A Report on the First Year’s Efforts to Reform D.C.’s Public Schools, November
  1997, issued by General Julius W. Becton
• Charter School Applicants for
  1997-1998 school year

• American Federation of Teachers, reply in support of defendant AFT’s
  and McElroy’s Motion to Dismiss, April 11,
  2003
• Washington Teachers Union Executive Board, reply to plaintiff’s
  memorandum of law in opposition to the motion to dismiss the claims
  against defendant, April 11, 2003
• Nathan A. Saunders, Plaintiff’s reply to defendants’ opposition to
  plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction and to appoint a
  monitor and opposition to motion to dismiss, April
  4, 2003
• US Attorney for the District of Columbia, criminal information against
  Michael Wayne Martin in Washington Teachers Union Case, April
  2, 2003
• US Attorney for the District of Columbia, plea agreement with and
  statement of offense by Michael Wayne Martin in Washington Teachers
  Union Case, March 27, 2003
• Washington Teachers Union Board of Directors motion to dismiss in Saunders
  v. Hankerson, March 21, 2003
• American Federation of Teachers, defendant’s motion to dismiss in Saunders
  v. Hankerson, et al., March 21, 2003
• American Federation of Teachers, defendant’s opposition to
  plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction and to appoint a
  monitor, March 21, 2003
• Summary of American Federation of Teachers WTU Administratorship
  Investigation, submitted to the Court by the AFT, March
  21, 2003
• Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, order in Saunders v. Hankerson, March
  10, 2003
• Public Employees Relations Board complaint against Washington Teachers
  Union filed by Janai C. Reed and Harold Brazil, March
  2003
• Independence Federal Savings Bank, letter to customers about WTU case,
  March 3, 2003
• Nathan A. Saunders, Motion for a preliminary injunction and
  appointment of a monitor, and memorandum of law, March
  3, 2003
• Civil lawsuit and motion for a class action certification prepared by Janai C. Reed and Harold Brazil filed against Washington
  Teachers Union and other, February 25, 2003
• US Attorney for the District of Columbia, statement of offense by
  Leroy Holmes, plea agreement with Leroy Holmes, and press release on
  guilty plea, February 6, 2003
• Nathan A. Saunders, Amended civil lawsuit filed against Washington Teachers
  Union and others, February 4, 2003
• US Attorney for the District of Columbia, criminal information against
  Leroy Holmes, former chauffeur for Washington Teachers Union officials, January
  27, 2003
• American Federation of Teachers press conference on national union
  takeover of Washington Teachers Union local, January
  27, 2003
• American Federation of Teachers letter to DC teachers announcing
  takeover and canceling teachers’ meeting on January 27, January
  22, 2003
  • Nathan Saunders, open letter replying to AFT letter, January
    25, 2003
• American Federation of Teachers press release, “AFT Votes to Place
  WTU Under Administratorship,” January 22,
  2003
• DC Office of Campaign Finance, press release on investigation of the
  Committee to Re-Elect Tony Williams and the Washington Teachers Union, January
  22, 2003
• American Federation of Teachers, Complaint against officials of the
  Washington Teachers Union filed in the US District Court for the
  District of Columbia, January 16, 2003
• American Federation of Teachers, forensic examination of the
  Washington Teachers’ Union, Local 6, January
  16, 2003
• Nathan A. Saunders, Civil lawsuit filed against Washington Teachers
  Union and others, December 27, 2002
• Statement by the Edward J. McElroy, Secretary Treasurer, American
  Federation of Teachers, on the Washington Teachers Union, on AFT web
  site, December
  2002
• Katherine L. Andrews, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Affidavit in
  support of search and seizure warrants for officers of the Washington
  Teachers Union and others, December 18, 2002
• Nathan A. Saunders, “Why Teachers Protested and Where Our Movement
  Goes from Here!,” organizing statement of the Strong Teachers’
  Grassroots Movement, November 24, 2002

WTU case prosecutors, US Asst. Attorneys James
W. Cooper and Anthony Alexis

• President George W. Bush, remarks on education reform and
  parental options, KIPP: DC KEY Academy, July
  1, 2003
  • Mayor Anthony A. Williams remarks, July
    1, 2003
  • Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, press release on President’s
    remarks, July 1, 2003
  • Councilmember Kevin Chavous’s letter to President
    Bush, July 3, 2003
• House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform
  hearing on “School Choice in the District of Columbia:
  Opening Doors for Parents and Students,” June 24, 2003
  • Rep. Tom Davis
  • Rep. Dan Burton
  • Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
  • Rep. John A. Boehner,
    Chairman, Committee on Education and the Workforce
  • US Secretary of Education Rod
    Paige
  • Mayor Anthony A. Williams
  • American Civil Liberties
    Union
  • American Federation of
    Teachers
  • Coalition
    for Accountable Public Schools
  • National
    Coalition for Public Education
  • National School Boards
    Association
  • People for the
    American Way
  • StopDCVouchers.
    org
• DC Parental Choice Incentive Act of 2003l, H.R. 2556, introduced by Rep. Tom
  Davis (R-VA), June 23, 2003
• House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform
  hearing on “In Search of Educational Excellence in the
  Nation’s Capital: A Review of Academic Options for Students
  and Parents in the District of Columbia,” May
  9, 2003
• DC School Choice bill, H.R. 684, introduced by Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ),
  February 11, 2003