Browse past news stories for Ballou High School in Washington, DC.

• Ballou Marching Band Back from Parade (FOX 5 Washington D.C.)
  posted on November 28, 2009 at 04:41:09 am
  While their classmates were at home for the Thanksgiving holiday, the Ballou High Majestic Knights Marching Band was in New York City performing at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.  Those who took part say they couldn't be more proud.
• AP-AM Prep-Urban (FOX 11 Tucson)
  posted on November 27, 2009 at 11:12:16 am
  ! URBAN ! NEW YORK (AP) — Wouldn't you know it — there's an Omarosa connection to the couple that crashed President Barack Obama's first State Dinner earlier this week.
• First for DC: Ballou band plays Macy's parade (The Washington DC Examiner)
  posted on November 26, 2009 at 10:15:09 pm
  WASHINGTON — The high-stepping Ballou High School marching band has become the first D.C. high school band to perform in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
• News Story 20383602-4454-453c-b7cd-f4fa3408fdec (FOX 11 Tucson)
  posted on November 26, 2009 at 09:12:16 pm
  ! SEGUE ! GENEVA (AP) — Roman Polanski is catching a break. The Swiss government says it will release him on $4.5 million bail and allow him to be under house arrest. The house?
• Judge rejects D.C. teachers union's complaint over layoffs (Washington Post)
  posted on November 25, 2009 at 05:00:00 am
  A D.C. Superior Court judge on Tuesday upheld Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's decision to lay off 266 public school teachers and other educators to close a budget gap, flatly rejecting union arguments that she contrived financial problems to rid the system of older instructors.
• D.C. Drive-By Bolsters Call for More Resources (Washington Post)
  posted on October 14, 2009 at 06:29:59 pm
  The police tape was still up Wednesday morning at the Northeast Washington public housing complex where two teenagers were killed and three wounded in a shootout Tuesday. Community leaders said the violence illustrates that more resources are needed in the neglected part of the city.
• Rally Supports Laid-Off Ballou Teachers (FOX 5 Washington D.C.)
  posted on October 9, 2009 at 10:56:09 pm
  On Friday, a group of former Ballou High School students rallied behind a popular athletic coach and teacher who lost his job when more than 200 D.C. teachers were laid off recently.  It was the latest in a series of protests following the layoffs of more than 200 teachers in the D.C. public school system.
• Morning Roundup: Paycheck to Paycheck Edition (DCist)
  posted on October 8, 2009 at 01:26:32 pm
  Photo by Marcellina. Good morning, Washington. We're glad to see most of you weren't physically carried away by yesterday's high winds, which at a minimum caused a number of power outages throughout the metro area. By early this morning, though, those winds had all but vanished , leaving us to determine which way the wind is blowing ... solely by scanning the day's headlines! Hawk One Security ...
• 11 Ballou students arrested in gang feud (The Washington Times)
  posted on October 8, 2009 at 09:39:10 am
  Nearly a dozen youths were arrested Wednesday morning at Ballou High School in Anacostia after an ongoing feud between street gangs spilled into the building. The arrests were made less than a week after D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) officials fired nearly 400 employees in a cost-cutting move and came on the heels of last week's collapse of Hawk One Security Inc., the school system's private ...
• Students connect with peers worldwide (Charleston Daily Mail)
  posted on June 28, 2009 at 09:47:00 pm
  WASHINGTON - A team of very smart teenagers has set out to discover ways that maggots might make the world a better place. Two are from suburban Washington. Two live more than 9,000 miles away in Singapore.To many U.S. politicians, educators and business l...
• Standard Bearers (Lebanon Daily News)
  posted on May 24, 2009 at 02:38:19 pm
  ANNVILLE — Asking “How do we repay those who gave the ultimate sacrifice?” Maj. Gen. Robert French admitted there is no simple answer. But he had a few suggestions.
• Dangerous Mercury Spills Still Trouble Schoolchildren (Scientific American)
  posted on May 5, 2009 at 05:11:41 pm
  One night in February, high school principal Matthew Smith got a frightening wake-up call. The local fire department alerted him that the home of a student at Agua Fria High School was contaminated with liquid mercury that apparently had been taken from a science classroom. The next day, emergency crews descended on the school in haz-mat suits, discovering a toxic trail of mercury vapors in ...
• Decision Time: Parade or Pillow Fight? (Washington Post)
  posted on April 4, 2009 at 04:00:00 am
  It's pretty much now or never: Today is pegged as the last day to take in cherry trees at peak bloom around the Tidal Basin. Oh, and it's also the only day you can see the annual parade, then slip off for some sake tasting and sumo watching at the Sakura Matsuri street festival.
• Summer Jobs Program Gets Improvements (FOX 5 Washington D.C.)
  posted on March 18, 2009 at 11:06:25 pm
  Spring is here, and soon many kids in the District will be entering the city's summer youth employment program. It's had its share of problems in recent years, but on Wednesday, Mayor Adrian Fenty helped kick off early registration by unveiling some big changes.
• Taxes, Bonds and Mascots ... Oh My! (NBC Washington)
  posted on March 12, 2009 at 12:35:32 pm
  Check out our round-up on D.C. taxes and bonds, the media-Council basketball game, and some other sporting mentions.