Friendship Public Charter Schools, founded in 1997, has elementary, middle and high school campuses throughout D.C., serving nearly 6,000 children and youth in pre-school through grade 12.

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Tracy and Josh on Fighting for D.C.

I used to work in the Maryland State Legislature, and people there felt like they could progres...

Linwood on 40 Years of Gutting Fish

And after 40 years, I have probably cut off more fish heads and scaled and gutted more fish tha...

Philippa on Bringing Venetian Canals to Washington, D.C.

A few years ago, I had this idea: how can I bring canals to Washington, D.C.? After all of this...

Jason on the Live Aboard Community in SW

This whole waterfront is changing, and I hope that our houseboat community can survive. We are ...

Joy on Sign Spinning

Mikhael on Living on a Houseboat

People always ask about the best way to meet people when you move someplace new. Well, one of t...

Justin on Captain White’s

After school, my Mom would bring me down and I spent all of my weekends around fish.

George, Michael, Cliff, Johnny, Eugene, and Frank on Growing Up

I was thinking of being a, like, lawyer or businessman or something when I grow up.

Ms. Cooke on Five Generations of Cookes

I hope that when I die, my family will remember me for having taught them to respect one anothe...

Catherine and Moises on The District of Colombia

People enjoy each other for what they have there in Colombia. Here, people worry about what the...