In today’s rundown: Commentary: focus on family poverty to eliminate the racial achievement gap in the District’s public schools. | Same work, less pay — Virginia’s persistent gender gap.
— Before the racial achievement gap in D.C. Public Schools is eliminated, the city needs to address family poverty, according to Walter Smith, the executive director of D.C. Appleseed, a Women’s Foundation Grantee Partner. In a commentary on WAMU, Smith joins Defeat Poverty DC in calling on local candidates for office to explain what they’ll do to address poverty in the District.
— A new report on the gender pay gap from The Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis finds that the higher the income, the wider the gap. The report finds that Virginia has a persistently larger gender pay gap than the region or country as a whole. The gap widens as incomes and education levels increase. Click here for more details.
