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As of March 2024, data show that across all D.C.’s public schools, chronic absenteeism improved by 4.3 percentage points over the same time during the previous year, and a majority of schools improved by at least one percentage point. Chronic truancy, which focuses on unexcused absences only, has improved by 5.2 percentage…
Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to The Richard E. and Nancy P. Marriott Foundation for their support of this report and to Education Forward DC for their ongoing support of the D.C. Policy Center’s Education Policy Initiative. In addition, the authors deeply appreciate the staff at government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and schools…
On November 6, 2024, Executive Director Yesim Sayin was quoted by the Washington Business Journal: “Republican legislators have complained about certain actions in D.C.,” including speed cameras, the granting of voting rights in local elections for noncitizens and returning citizens, said Yesim Sayin, executive director of the D.C. Policy Center, which studies…