dr. kevin maxwell apologized for inconvenience noting call-out was action urged by organizers of the women's march on washington. as you me 1700 teachers and also 30% of transportation staff requested that personal leave day. maxwell said absences compromised school system ability to transport students and provide safe productive learning environments and told parents the leave request increased significantly during the day yesterday forcing decision to keep students at home. now, some parent we spoke about supported day's message and some did not. >> it should have been discussed. >> and you should have input. >> we should have input or at least give feedback perfect a decision is made. >> it's good thing to allow the teachers to go and express opinion. i'm okay with that. i wish we had no earlier. >> now, aconsidereding to one of the school board members we spoke to similar to what we heard in alexandria city yesterday, the school system cannot deny that personal leave when it is requested and today employees and school system are told to report to work as usual and they wish to take the d

dr. kevin maxl dr. maxwellmem good morning. >> good morning.nig >> couple things we want to gets out of the way. wouof t one, the question is, as to thee timing of this.timing oth when did you realize that you ra through these personal days d which it's our understandingerst staff members can take thesen kt when they choose as they chooseo when did you realize though that enough people were taking offref that you would have to close school? >> so first i would say thereaye are several types of leave theee teachers can take.teachean take. they can take sick leave. te si they can take annual or personal leave.e. mostly it's personal leave withh teachers. but we check the day before bor yesterday and the numbers lookeo pretty comparable to the week wk before considering again we were 24 hours ahead of where we weree looking. but then yesterday we saw a hugh spike and by 5:30 yesterday by y 4:00 o'clock really yesterday wr were up to over 1700 teachersear and we were starting to hearg th from transportation that a

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dr. kevin maxwell for more on the decision to close schools today. >> prince george county schools are not the only ones closing today because of the day without women march. so many staff members on personal leave for this day. schools are closed in alexandria and virginia for all six campuses and charter schools in d.c. are closed. >> and condition servetive group org phasing a counter positive. they want women to continue working saying we show up. they want women to do what they love and post online and say not my protest and we show up #s. >> now to "fox5" exclusive a watchdog group claims mayor becauseer accepted ill campaign contributions during her 04 campaign. in that complaint they complain there were more than 0,000 in illegal contributions we spoke with public citizens and mayor becauseerror for comment. >> there should have been immediate apology for the mayor and that funding should have been returned i'm not sure why that didn't happen that's partly why we're pursuing that. >> why does that money exist and you're refunding other money three years later. >> i don't want to ge

dr. kevin maxwell will be live on good day d.c. tomorrow morning at 9:45. he will talk more about the decision and what needs to happen to handle large staffing outages like this in the future. we now turn to a fox5 exclusive, a watch dog group blames mure muriel bowser accepted illegal campaign contributions during her 2014 campaign. tonight, fox5 marina maracco asked the complaint about the watch dog group filed. marina is live with the mayor. >>reporter: that government watch dog group public citizens, the minute the formal complaint here today at the d.c. office of campaign finance and in that complaint public citizen alleges that more than 22 contributions were made over the legal limit of $2,000 each totaling more than $30,000 in what appear to be illegal contributions. now, among those contributions is one from stand ford capital, a company sued pepete office of the attorney general after failing to obey the number of housing violations at its numerous properties across the district. tonight we caught up with a representative from public citizen and

dr. kevin maxwell says they couldn't pull off a normal day with so many teachers out of their classroom. we spoke with a single mom who works for the school system and has a daughter who is a student. >> well, i mean, it's just a day with no school, i guess. have to take my daughter to school with me. i didn't get the chance to take the day off. why should they? i think the whole thing is stupid. i mean, we already did the march and all that other stuff. why another day for this? >> in d.c. center city public charter schools closed all six of its campuses because of a lack of staffing. schools in the city of alexandria also closed. and yesterday officials tweeted that they didn't make that decision lightly. >> people around the world took part in international women's day. in rome transit workers staged a walkout today bringing buses, trans and metro to a halt. rallies across italy were meant to draw attention to the gender pay gap in that country. and a new bronze statue popped up overnight in the financial capital of the world. the fearless girl statue stands in front of the iconic wal

dr. kevin maxwell, ceo of schools in prince george's county. maxwell said the county could not provide safe and productive learning without adequate staff and went on to apologize for the inconvenience. this also impacts some schools in d.c. and northern virginia. a day without a woman boycott organizers, the same ones behind the women's march on washington that happened right after the election are calling for a one-day strike around the world. to spotlight the role women play in society and suggest women take part in rallies and marches near then. the boycott is also expected to have a huge impact on local businesses. for more on that angle, you can read the story on my facebook page. we're live in prince george's county this morning. back to you. >>> all right. thank you. now, the closures have a lot of parents scrambling to find child care today. there is some relief for parents in alexandria. the city's out of school ti this morning until 6:00 tonight. there is a walk-in fee of $15 and children should bring lunch and snacks. we have a list

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