The budget includes money for affordable housing, homeless services, rental assistance, new parks, and expanded library operating hours, and scraps D.C.'s per-gallon gas tax and a tax on out-of-state municipal bonds.
The teachers at Cardozo High School and Patterson Elementary School were fired as part of a process undertaken by school officials to improve test scores at the two schools.
A huge sinkhole has forced D.C. to shut down a stretch of 14th Street NW between Pennsylvania and New York Avenues, leaving motorists in this congested part of the city to find alternate routes.