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.
Most students in the District of Columbia have been learning from home since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March of…
This publication draws on the D.C. Policy Center report, Guidance from the District’s public schools to the future research-practice partnership:…
In D.C., students are required to receive certain vaccines to attend school,[1] a practice that increases community protections against potentially…
The public health and economic crises caused by COVID-19 have created additional challenges for students who are navigating the transition…
In the fall of 2022, public charter schools in D.C. will be able to opt into an at-risk priority in…
D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) and public charter schools shifted to distance learning in the spring of 2020 and largely began…
Washington, D.C. is one of the highest-earning, most educated cities in the country, yet almost 20 percent of families with…
The shift to distance learning due to the coronavirus pandemic in spring of 2020 created access and language barriers for…
On July 30, 2020, Mayor Bowser announced that D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) would begin the 2020-21 school year entirely virtually….
