DC SCHOOLS | 13 Schools In District to Offer Specialty Programs (WaPo, 7/29) – “The first three years of the catalyst project will be funded by $6 million in grants from donors that include the Philip L. Graham Fund, the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation and the CityBridge Foundation… After three years, Rhee said, the schools will be expected to pay for the programs with funds generated by increased enrollment.”
DC BUDGET
- “D.C. Council is moving forward on a proposal to eliminate all earmarks from the 2010 budget, which would deny city funding to dozens of arts and nonprofit social organizations.” (WaPo’s D.C. Wire, 7/28)
> Washington Area Women’s Foundation: “Helping prevent proposed cuts to D.C.’s safety net will help low-income women.” (7/28)
> D.C. Council eyes deep cuts to education, human services (Examiner, 7/29) – Councilman Jack Evans: “If you’re going to cut $10 million out of the school system you’re going to catch hell, so you might as well cut 50.” Yeehaw, now that thar’s some budgetin’!
YOUTH | “Self Portrait of Youth in Northern Virginia” summarizes results from youth health risk surveys administered by four Northern Virginia localities. (Voices for Virginia’s Children, July, 2009)
DATA | Flaws decried in data on US children’s well-being (AP, 7/28) – The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2009 KIDS COUNT databook includes a special report on a “data deficit,” and “urges the government to overhaul its formula for measuring poverty, strengthen efforts in the 2010 Census to fully count children and minorities…”
PUBLIC OR PRIVATE? | This entertaining post responds to the California state legislature’s hopes that private foundations will fund all that child health stuff it just cut. (White Courtesy Telephone, 7/29)
ARTS | Partnerships Help Keep Arts Afloat (WAMU, 7/29)
And finally, I kind of wish I’d never linked this story, but what’s done is done… here’s your Marion Barry/nonprofit/ethics investigation update (WTOP, 7/29).
-Nick
