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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Kevin Chavous |
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, District of Columbia , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
May 17, 1956
(67 years)
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Feb 11, 2017 06:23pm |
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| Info | Kevin P. Chavous is serving his third term as the Ward Seven representative on the District of Columbia City Council where he continues to be a forceful advocate for public education and public school reform. As Chair of the city Council's Committee of Education, Libraries and Recreation, Mr. Chavous has been at the forefront of promoting change within the District Public School system and his efforts have led to nearly 400 million new dollars for public education.
As a leading national advocate for school choice, Mr. Chavous has helped to shepherd the Charter School movement into the Nation's Capital. Under his education chair leadership, Charter Schools in the District have grown from zero schools to nearly 40 schools and 11,000 students in five short years. That number represents 18 percent of the overall public school population in the District of Columbia, the highest percentage of charter schools in the country. His efforts on behalf of the Charter Schools, earned him the prestigious MAC award in 2000. In addition, Mr. Chavous recently introduced unprecedented legislation to lower the compulsory attendance law in the District from age 5 to age 3. This legislation is the first step to paving the way for universal pre-kindergarten, and in allowing the school system to take better responsibility for all 3 and 4 year olds in the District. In order to secure a blueprint for the legislation's implementation, Mr. Chavous appointed the Commission on Primary Education Reform to report on the best ways for the District to transition to universal pre-kindergarten.
As evidence of his commitment to education quality from pre-Kindergarten through college, Mr. Chavous is the leading force championing the University of the District of Columbia as a world class institution of higher learning. His leadership has ensured that the District's only public land grant college remain open and available for residents who otherwise would be unable to attend college.
Mr. Chavous has been instrumental in facilitating partnerships to ensure equitable economic development in residential neighborhoods throughout the District of Columbia. He has sponsored a number of innovative community programs such as job fairs, community wide forums on public safety, parental involvement in the D.C. Public Schools and the popular and historic Minnesota Avenue Day - a celebration of neighborhoods resulting in a record setting attendance of 15,000 citizens. His creative approach to neighborhood economic development has been lauded by the Washington Post as "on of the more thoughtful approaches on economic development by a D.C. official since the beginning of home rule." In addition to his work on the City Council, Mr. Chavous practices law with the Washington, D. C. law firm of Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal, where he is currently developing the firm's Education Law practice. He also teaches education law as an adjunct Professor of Law at American University's Washington College of Law.
Kevin P. Chavous was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. A graduate of the Howard University School of Law, where he was the graduating class president, Mr. Chavous also earned his undergraduate degree from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he was an NCAA District All-American in basketball. He is a member of various civic associations in the Ward Seven Community in which he lives. He has also organized and participated in a number of charitable activities, including providing free legal counsel to a variety of civic groups. Mr. Chavous and his wife, Beverly Bass Chavous, have two sons, Kevin and Eric. The Chavous family are members of St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Southeast Washington.
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