D.C.’s enrollment audit for school year 2025-26, released in March 2026, shows that the number of students is almost flat compared to the previous year (decline of 0.1 percent), with about 100 fewer students than school year 2024-25.[i] This comes on the heels of three years of growing enrollment in pre-kindergarten through…

On April 9, 2026, Wilkes Initiative Director Emilia Calma was quoted in The 51st: “The candidates are going for supply-heavy responses. I think that’s a good thing because research has shown time and time again that cities have built more housing saw lower rent growth,” says Emilia Calma, the director of the…

On April 12, 2026, Deputy Director Chelsea Coffin was quoted in The Washington Post: “We’re starting to see signs of increased stress in English learner family communities experiencing more risks of deportation or being hassled on the way to school,” Chelsea Coffin, who leads education research at the D.C. Policy Center, said….