On October 9, 2026, Education Research Analyst Anoosha Imran was quoted in the The Washington Sun about enrollment trends in D.C. schools:
While officials and experts say there’s no immediate crisis, they add that a possible decline in enrollment — after almost 15 years of steady increases — would prompt difficult and uncomfortable questions and policy choices. That could include potentially closing schools, a route Maryland’s Montgomery County is considering.
“We are in a situation where we should be looking at these trends, because we don’t want to get to a point where we’re at a low and don’t have policies to address it,” said Anoosha Imran, an education research analyst with the D.C. Policy Center, a local think tank.
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