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.
How do public charter school participation rates vary across the city, and which public charter schools enroll many students from…
Three-quarters of public school students in the District attend a school other than the in-boundary school in their neighborhood, where…
× I. Introduction: What are public school enrollment patterns in the District of Columbia, and what could explain them? I….
The D.C. Policy Center report “Schools in the Neighborhood: Can Neighborhood Characteristics Explain Enrollment at In-Boundary Schools?” examines the connections…
Chelsea Coffin, Director of the D.C. Policy Center’s Education Policy Initiative, spoke at a poster session at a conference organized by The Lab @…
On February 12, 2018, the Trump Administration announced it had eliminated funding for the DC Tuition Assistance Grant (DC TAG)…
Education Policy Initiative Director Chelsea Coffin is giving testimony on January 30, 2018 about the “Student Fair Access to School…
Update: The text has been updated with footnotes 2 and 3 to include context on two cited studies. (2/2/2018). The proposed…
In the fourth quarter of 2017, Councilmember David Grosso, the chairperson of the Committee on Education, introduced the “Student Fair…
