Former DCPS superintendent admits guilt to pay-to-play, unanswered questions surrounding contract with Relay Graduate School of Education and DC's leadership still refuse to confront scandal. Washington, D.C. residents, tax payers and voters deserve to know a basic truth about their public schools: Did the millions spent on Relay training help children learn or not? Who was the system really serving? For years, beginning in 2017, District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) poured taxpayer...

DC’s Education Scandal Isn’t Just Corruption—It’s a Blueprint for Silencing Black Schools Washington loves to preach about equity. It funds task forces, commissions glossy reports, and fills press conferences with the language of justice. But in the nation’s capital, inside the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) system, something far uglier has been unfolding since 2017: intentional segregation, thousands of Black elementary students harmed, whistleblowers punished, Black educators...

America’s response to the destruction of Tulsa’s Black Wall Street and DC’s handling of RelayGate are linked by a common pattern: the state enables racialized harm to Black communities, then deploys silence, delay, and technicalities to evade full repair while preserving the power and profit structures that caused the harm. Not identical crimes but the same governing logic : Both Tulsa 1921 and RelayGate-- under DC Mayor Bowser's mayoral control of DC Public Schools --show how government...