
Lauren Lumpkin
Education Reporter at The Washington Post
Reporter covering D.C. schools for @washingtonpost | she/her | Cleveland is the reason 🌙 | Send tips and book recs to [email protected]
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washingtonpost.com | Lauren Lumpkin
Foreign-born D.C. teachers blindsided by end of green card policy (washingtonpost.com) Foreign-born D.C. teachers blindsided by end of green card policy By Lauren Lumpkin 2025040510005700 She first came to the United States from Colombia in her early 20s, working as an au pair and learning how badly American schools needed Spanish teachers.
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washingtonpost.com | Nicole Asbury |Lauren Lumpkin
Maryland school leaders say they could lose millions in pandemic aid (washingtonpost.com) Maryland school leaders say they could lose millions in pandemic aid By Nicole Asbury; Lauren Lumpkin 2025033122581600 Maryland education leaders say the state could lose hundreds of millions after the Trump administration recently announced it was cutting off final reimbursements for federal coronavirus relief money.
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4 weeks ago |
washingtonpost.com | Lauren Lumpkin |Hau Chu
Federal immigration enforcement agents tried to detain a health-care worker at a D.C. elementary school as students arrived Wednesday morning, a spokesperson for the school district said. The worker is not a school employee, but a health-care contractor assigned to H.D. Cooke Elementary School by D.C. Health, officials said.
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flipboard.com | Nicole Asbury |Karina Elwood |Lauren Lumpkin |Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff
1 day agoThe appeal is undeniable: never forget anything important ever again. The method is practical: using the phone you carry with you everywhere you go. And the results are promising, if not a full delivery on the promise. It’s called TwinMind, and it’s an AI-powered “second brain” to help our aging, …
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1 month ago |
washingtonpost.com | Meagan Flynn |Jenny Gathright |Lauren Lumpkin
A possible opening emerged for the District to avoid more than $1 billion in cuts to public services under a Republican spending bill after Senate Democrats indicated Wednesday that they would vote down the bill. The shift boosted D.C.’s hopes of avoiding potential layoffs of police, teachers and other critical workers but that also inched the nation closer to a potential government shutdown if lawmakers don’t reach an agreement.
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Another snow day — and makeup day tacked on to the end of the school year. It looks like the new last day could be June 20 (June 19 is a holiday).

Due to weather conditions, all DCPS schools will be closed on Tuesday, January 7. Debido a las condiciones meteorológicas, todas las escuelas de las DCPS estarán cerradas el martes 7 de enero. https://t.co/kdCavSwDC0

DCPS schools are closed tomorrow ❄️ with no snow days built into the calendar, the day off will be made up on June 18, spox says.

Due to weather conditions, all DCPS schools will be closed on Monday, January 6. Debido a las condiciones meteorológicas, todas las escuelas de las DCPS estarán cerradas el lunes 6 de enero. https://t.co/nWxbOUsVbs

RT @CMZParker5: We remember the many lives lost on this day in 2001, including three DCPS teachers and three DCPS students who were on thei…