Jonetta Rose Barras: Bad faith in D.C.

It would be perfectly understandable if families enrolled in DC Public Schools left en masse. Within the past year, they have been locked out of important decisions regarding the future of the system, made to jump through a series of unnecessary hoops and deliberately lied to.

When Mayor Vincent C. Gray and Chancellor Kaya Henderson decided more than a dozen schools needed to be closed, they told parents they would hold community meetings and incorporate their concerns in any final decisions. Most of the schools on the list remained slated for closure after those so-called dialogues.