Donna Lewis Johnson teaches English language arts at a D.C. public charter high school. Reading that teachers at Anacostia High School have demanded safety improvements from D.C. school ...

Sequan Cannon is pretty sure he eventually wants to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps and join the District’s Metropolitan Police Department. That’s one of the reasons the 16-year-old ...

Several teachers at Anacostia High School in D.C. left their classrooms Friday to stage a workplace action as a result of frustration with their work environment. Brandi Byrd, a ninth grade ...

The numbers are even worse when you zero in on high school. Attendance is abysmal: At Anacostia High School 82% were chronically absent, Ballou High School 88%, and at Dunbar High School 82%.

Don't miss our weekly town hall. by Tom Roussey/ABC7 TOPICS: WASHINGTON (ABC7) — DC’s police chief says a 15-year-old Anacostia High School student was chased by two masked gunmen who shot and ...

The speakers were made up of 15 seniors at Anacostia High School who delivered powerful and personal poetry. "What you don’t know by looking at me is that both my parents are locked up," said Ra ...

A school that once was constantly visited by the city’s emergency services has taken control of its hallways, classrooms and common areas. Anacostia’s high school graduation rate last year was ...

Two firefighters were injured Friday afternoon while fighting a fire that broke out on the roof of Anacostia High School in Southeast D.C. Smoke could be seen for miles around after the flames ...

After a $58 million renovation, the large-scale modernization of Southeast DC’s Anacostia High School—a project led by U Street firm Sorg Architects and completed in August 2012—received American ...

In the wake of last week’s shooting death of a 15-year-old Anacostia High School student near Nationals Park, some of his classmates have organized in an effort to stop gun violence and improve ...

She knows how much harder it would be for her to finish high school. At many schools, she would have gotten little more than some advice from a school nurse. But here at Anacostia High School in ...

It was overcast outside Thursday afternoon, but a light of enthusiasm brightened the music room at Anacostia High School, 1601 16th Street, S.E. “This is a beat and a culture that comes from our ...