These are our education publications. We have a new Education Policy Initiative that focuses solely on education in the District. To learn more about it, please see the Education Policy Initiative webpage.
In October 2020, all 67 Local Education Agencies (LEAs) in the District submitted their Continuous Education and School Recovery Plans…
In July 2020, the District of Columbia State Board of Education (DC SBOE), in partnership with the Office of the…
One year after schools physically closed on March 16, 2020,[1] an estimated 88 percent of students in the District of…
In focus groups conducted by the D.C. Policy Center in August 2020, some teachers reported that when D.C.’s public and…
On June 3, 2021, D.C. Policy Center Education Policy Initiative Director Chelsea Coffin testified at the Committee of the Whole…
To help schools and students cope with the extreme challenges created by COVID-19, the U.S. Department of Education awarded three…
On May 26, 2021, D.C. Policy Center Education Policy Initiative Director Chelsea Coffin testified at the Special Committee on COVID-19…
High school students in D.C. have been especially impacted by the pandemic. In an EmpowerK12 survey of 2,500 public charter…
For students at District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), and many public charter schools, the 2020-21 school year will end…
