In The News

School Fliers:

• School Profile for Colleges and Universities
   

Community Newsletter:

• News for the New Year (January 2023)
• Announcing our next Head of School - Laina Cox! (January 2023)
• Extending our thanks (November 2022)
• We’re back and “ready to take on the world” (August 2022)
• An important update from Karen Dresden (April 2022)
• Leadership and learning spring from Capital City (February 2022)
• A school year like no other (August 2020)
• Celebrating our community while we're apart (May 2020)
• The results are in... (November 2019)
• DC Teacher of the Year! (October 2019)
• Kicking off our 20th school year (August 2019)
• New principal + student advocacy = the end to a great school year! (June 2019)
• Teacher of the Year Finalist! (May 2019)
• Student success is sprouting this spring! (April 2019)
• TIER-ific results! (November 2018)
• Feeling thankful for our national award winner! (November 2018)
• Beating the odds: Capital City grad rates exceed national average (October 2018)
• School's back, and we're ready to learn (August 2018)
• A school year of achievements including PBS NewsHour & Children's Voices of Protest (June 2018)
• Student advocacy in full bloom (April 2018)
• A flurry of Capital City news (January 2018)
• A fall full of TIER-ific news! (November 2017)
• No eclipsing our summer of achievements! (August 2017)
• Nationals 1st Baseman Promotes Summer Reading at Capital City (June 2017)
• Fifth Grader Introduces First Lady Michelle Obama at National Health Summit (May 2017)
• A Theater for Everyone (Feb 2017)
• Expedition! Community Newsletter (Jan 2017)
  
   

In the News:

• DC charter school claps back after congressman's 'inmate factory' comment (Fox5 DC – April 3, 2023)
• Congressman calls D.C. schools ‘inmate factories’ and unites a city (The Washington Post – April 1, 2023)
• At Project Soapbox, D.C. Students Urge Local Officials To Take Action On Issues Close To Home (DCist – December 15, 2022)
• DC students say ‘their truths’ about their biggest concerns in the community (WTOP News – December 14, 2022)
• A World of Good: Latinx Leaders at EL Education's 2022 National Conference (EL Education – October 6, 2022)
• Keep School Staff Motivated All Year Long: Advice From Principals (EducationWeek – September 26, 2022)
• Ensure Your Staff Gets the Message: 3 Tips for School Leaders (EducationWeek – September 26, 2022)
• Last week was tough, teachers say. But it wasn’t the first difficult ‘day after’ they’ve faced (The Hechinger Report – January 15, 2021)
• It’s Not Just About Voting: How Character, Civic Discourse Factor Into Post-Election Lessons (Education Writers Association – December 4, 2020)
• 'Standing Up for What is Right': Teaching in the Aftermath of the Presidential Election (Education Week – November 22, 2020)
• When the Building is Closed but School is Open (Part 1) and You Can’t Separate Character from Student Success (Part 2) (180 Podcast by Turnaround for Children – November 9, 2020)
• Pandemic teaching, in their words (The Washington Post – October 6, 2020)
• Are Charter Schools the Best Option? (True Chat The State of Us – October 1, 2020)
• We Listen (DC Charter School Alliance – August 6, 2020)
• How to Address Race in Schools (True Chat The State of Us – July 28, 2020)
• In D.C. wards hit hardest by covid-19, sending kids to school is a risk some parents won’t take (The Washington Post – June 10, 2020)
• Service Learning in America (Education Next – April 2020)
• Photo Flash: A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS Begins Rehearsals At Arena Stage (Broadway World – January 3, 2020)
• For D.C. students, lessons in growth, of the garden variety (The Washington Post – November 15, 2019)
• 'A mirror to our students': UNC grad and DC Teacher of the Year gives back (The Daily Tar Heel– November 14, 2019)
• This D.C. teacher of the year just won $7,500. He’s giving it back to his students. (The Washington Post – November 8, 2019)
• DC’s new Teacher of the Year shares his passion for science while promoting equity in education and empowering students at Capital City PCS (The DC Line – October 10, 2019)
• Primer hispano reconocido como maestro del año en DC (Telemundo – October 3, 2019)
• This is DC's teacher of the year. Here's how he was surprised with the news (WUSA9 – October 3, 2019)
• Educator Shocked When DC Mayor Names Him Teacher of the Year (NBC4 – October 2, 2019)
• 'He's like a father:' D.C. teacher of the year honored in a surprise ceremony (ABC7-WJLA – October 2, 2019)
• A school where character matters as much as academics (The Hechinger Report – September 3, 2019)
• Vocation Spots: Library Makerspaces Can Propel Teens Toward Career and Technical Education (School Library Journal – July 25, 2019)
• Dog breed specific legislation: It just doesn’t work -- a student perspective (Petworth News – May 23, 2019)
• DC unveils 2020 DC Teacher of the Year finalists after honoring city’s 2019 award-winning educators (The DC Line – May 9, 2019)
• Bowser Administration Announces Three Finalists for 2020 DC Teacher of the Year (OSSE – May 9, 2019)
• City-run program links school gardens with community volunteers to help spaces stay vibrant through the summer (The DC Line – April 22, 2019)
• Finalists for Post Principal and Teacher of the Year (Washington Post – April 2019)
• We the Students (American University Magazine – April 2019)
• The kids talked about shootings, college costs, depression. Were the adults listening? (Washington Post – April 1, 2019)
• Q&A: Principal Laina Cox On Designing Schools For Citizen Scholars (EL Education – February 24, 2019)
• ‘Week of Action’ returns to DC to share Black Lives Matter principles in local schools (DC Line – February 4, 2019)
• 9 Educators We’re Thankful We Met This Year (The 74 – November 20, 2018)
• ‘I just want to be brutally honest’: When Markieff Morris speaks to kids, nothing’s off limits (Washington Post – November 14, 2018)
• Capital City Public Charter School Principal Laina Cox Receives National Leadership Award From EL Education (EL Education – November 11, 2018)
• ‘We Will Get Out the Vote’: D.C. Middle Schoolers Barnstorm College Campus to Get Students to the Polls (The 74 – November 5, 2018)
• Travels With Charlie: Capital City Public Charter School Comes to Assateague Island (WBOC TV16 – October 26, 2018)
• Student Activism (USA TODAY Back to School Magazine – Fall 2018)
• Meet Marjoury Alicea, SBOE’s bilingual student representative (DC Language Immersion Project – August 22, 2018)
• Three EL Education Schools Join Forces To Measure Deeper Learning Skills (EL Education – August 22, 2018)
• Equity and Voice: How a Sense of Belonging Promotes Students' Agency (Education Week – August 15, 2018)
• Virginia, DC 100 Best Public High Schools: New List Released (Patch – August 3, 2018)
• Food justice curriculum in Washington, D.C. prompts students to explore food waste (PBS NewsHour – June 2018)
• Some D.C. students are seeking healthier, more affordable food for themselves, and their classmates (The Washington Post – April 18, 2018)
• D.C. EDUCATION BRIEFS: Inspiring Change (The Washington Informer – March 28, 2018)
• New Columbia Solar and DCSEU partner to bring solar to D.C. schools (DC Sustainable Energy Utility – March 28, 2018)
• Ahead of March for Our Lives, D.C. teens speak out about the gun violence they see every day (Yahoo News – March 23, 2018)
• "Tampon Tax" – essay by 9th Grader Willa (One World Education – March 2018)
• GoFundMe page set up to send nearly 100 DC students to see 'Black Panther' (ABC7 - WJLA – February 22, 2018)
• Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts (The Hechinger Report – January 15, 2018)
• Hunt-Kean Leadership Cohort 4, Begins Education Policy Fellowship in Washington (The Hunt Institute – December 6, 2017)
• Students gain an appreciation for history after learning there’s more to the story (The Washington Post – November 21, 2017)
• Youth Commissioners on Social, Emotional, & Academic Development Visit Capital City Public Charter School, Hone In on Personal Narratives During Fall 2018 Convening (The Aspen Institute – October 30, 2017)
• Hate Crimes in America: Essay by 8th Grader Zora Gregory (One World Education – October 2017)
• Through the Artist’s Lens: A Conversation with a Young Actor, Writer and Illustrator (Americans for the Arts – September 12, 2017)
• Putting It All Together (The Aspen Institute – August 24, 2017)
• For a better-educated child-care workforce, Washington looks to high school (Washington Post – August 5, 2017)
• Center for Inspired Teaching: Teacher Feature Ms. Sandra Ponce (August 2, 2017)
• Summer is here: Ryan Zimmerman helps kick-off the D.C. Public Library reading program (Washington Nationals – June 21, 2017)
• How Capital City Public Charter School Provides Its Students with a Deeper Learning Expedition (Alliance for Excellent Education – June 19, 2017)
• I’ve Been Preparing for College for Fourteen Years (National Alliance for Public Charter Schools – May 3, 2017)
• A Commitment To Belonging When The Stakes Are High (EL Education – April 27, 2017)
• JuJu at Capital City PCS (Teaching for Change – April 4, 2017)
• Students Serve Up Stories Of Beloved Family Recipes In A Global Cookbook (NPR – March 25, 2017)
• Four steps to improve US schools that (almost) everyone supports (Christian Science Monitor – March 16, 2017)
• Robust school choice and strong public schools – can US have both? (Christian Science Monitor – March 14, 2017)
• Extreme Event on the Road: Capital City Public Charter School Students Become Masters of Disaster (Koshland Science Museum – February 2017)
• Across America, high school seniors ponder life under Trump (Washington Post – November 21, 2016)
• D.C. Students March Across the District to Protest the Election, Call for Unity (WAMU – November 16, 2016)
• Can a Math Curriculum Audit Improve Student Achievement in Math? (Education Week – October 17, 2016)
• El Árbol Generoso (Documentary film in English by graduate students at George Washington University – June 2016)
• D.C. Public Charter School wins Green Ribbon Award (WJLA – May 18, 2016)
• Fall Harvest Fun (Let’s Move Blog – Oct. 8, 2015)
• Michelle Obama is joined by elementary school children to help harvest sweet potatoes, carrots and peanuts in the White House vegetable garden (Daily Mail Online – Oct. 7, 2015)
• Events, Expectations Helping High School Students Get to College (U.S. News & World Report – Dec. 8, 2014)
• Michelle Obama joins D.C. students for their march to mail college applications (Washington Post – Dec. 9, 2014)
• Big charter change seen in 2 D.C. schools (Washington Post – Aug. 27, 2014)
• Professor takes part in Food Justice Project for local high school (Georgetown University Medical Center – Mar. 14, 2014)