School Head Indicted in Scuffle With Reporter

The director of a charter school in the District of Columbia pleaded innocent late last week to misdemeanor charges stemming from a scuffle last month between the educator and a local newspaper reporter.

The conflicting accounts of the Dec. 3 incident involving Mary A.T. Anigbo, who heads the Marcus Garvey Public Charter School, have drawn widespread media attention in the nation's capital.

Ms. Anigbo, 54, is the founder of the Garvey School, one of two public charter schools in Washington that opened in September. Charter schools receive public money but are freed...