Tasty Morning Bytes – DCPS Achievement Gap, Tyranny of Coldplay, Remembering Petworth
Good morning, DCentric readers! Here are the links we’re reading this morning:
Huge achievement gaps persist in D.C. schools In Ward 8, 28 percent of elementary school students read at proficiency levels: “That level is almost identical to the pass rate in 2007, when then-Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) took control of the city school system.” (The Washington Post)
A Modest Proposal “Only when black folks are reduced to human rubble, can we properly pay homage to the ruins of the ghetto. Only when property values have plummeted to hell, and died there, can we be safe from the scourge of the white interloper, who would add our cultural distinctiveness to their own, and then subjugate us under the tyranny of Urban Outfitters and Coldplay.” (The Atlantic)
D.C. Lottery truck too long for street vending “It turns out the lottery truck is more than 7 feet too long under city law to operate as a street vendor vehicle.” The D.C. Lottery’s plan to capitalize on the “food truck craze” hits a speedbump. They didn’t check size requirements before building or buying it? (Washington Examiner )
Wendell Pierce, of ‘The Wire’ and ‘Treme,’ to open groceries in New Orleans ‘food deserts’ Building the grocery stores will cost approximately $2 million, while creating 75-150 jobs: “I know the people in these communities,” he said. “They’re family and friends and neighbors.” (trove.com)
Herman was one of the last white families to leave Petworth “If I could recreate anything, I would go back to being that little Jewish kid, hanging out with the older black guys, playing cards and doing stuff in that locker room. Those times were the happiest for me. To go back would be my dream.” (peoplesdistrict.com)