Despite more than 2,000 National Guard troops authorized by President Donald Trump's crackdown on crime, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said students in the nation's capital will not be aided by their presence as children return to school this week. "We don't need federal agencies to help get kids to school," Bowser told ABC News. "We will take care of getting our kids to school." The school year begins as Bowser and the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) tout proficiency rates in English language arts/literacy (ELA) and math are the highest since prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ELA proficiency rate is the highest on record. Hundreds of thousands of students are returning to the classroom across major metropolitan school districts this week. Some 100,000

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