On June 16, 2026, Deputy Director Chelsea Coffin was quoted in The 74:
Chelsea Coffin, an education policy specialist for the D.C. Policy Center, called the latest round of state assessments “a very good sign for D.C. students.”
“What we saw last school year were really large gains — even compared to what D.C. had been posting pre-pandemic — in both math and English, across almost all wards and most major subgroups,” Coffin said. “D.C. has a long way to go in terms of all students being on grade-level, but this new forward momentum is really exciting.”
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