Adrian Malik Fenty (born December 6, 1970)[3] is an American politician who served as the mayor of the District of Columbia[4] from 2007 to 2011. (wikipedia)
Most of these crimes that are being committed are being done by juveniles or by young people under 30, but still young. It does not surprise me at all that they are traveling to commit crime.
We need to bridge the gap between rich and poor.
The problem is that the two sides didn't have enough sitting-down time to work out what are the needs of the charter schools and what space is open to them. If we have the Board of Education continuing to make decisions without the charter schools, this will continue to happen.
I think even the mayor will admit that the schools have been so neglected that we're really talking about peanuts in terms of making them look like we want to educate children.
There's no way in the world when I get elected that I will throw the baby out with the bath water,
My view is that the lottery funding is a good source of funding, but I'm certainly open to another one. My ultimate goal is to fix the schools.
The bill is consistent with the priorities of the District of Columbia. People find the schools a complete embarrassment.
I'm going to take all of my opponents seriously.
This government can get things done when we put our minds to it. The real goal is that we institutionalize that in the police department.
This is a place where wounded veterans are brought to recover. There's a real patriotic sense in the neighborhood that we're doing our part in that.