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.
The D.C. Policy Center’s State of D.C. Schools, 2018-19 report highlighted where D.C.’s traditional public and public charter schools have…
In D.C., a large share of children and youth up to age 17 are likely to be exposed to traumatic…
On February 26, 2020, D.C. Policy Center Director of the Education Policy Initiative Chelsea Coffin testified before the D.C. State…
In the two years since a graduation controversy at Ballou High School exposed a serious student absenteeism problem across the…
ABOUT THIS REPORT This State of D.C. Schools report is a systemwide overview of education in D.C. meant to help…
This post originally appeared on the Urban Institute’s Greater DC blog. D.C.’s school choice policies allow families to send…
The recent D.C. Policy Center report, Access to schools that level the playing field for D.C.’s at-risk students, examined where…
The D.C. Policy Center report “Access to schools that level the playing field for D.C.’s at-risk students” examines where in…
Since the mid-2000s, the District of Columbia has experienced a population boom accompanied by rising housing values—and, in recent years,…
