The challenges for DC students and families in the last 20 months of the COVID-19 pandemic cannot be overstated. Loss of loved ones, financial stress, managing learning from home, and anxiety about the future have tested each student and family in DC. Sadly, these stresses are not new for many. …
In July, Education Forward DC celebrated five years of accelerating the work of visionary education leaders in the District of Columbia. In that relatively short amount of time, our investment of $43 million in more than 80 unique grantees to build greater equity for DC students has supported meaningful gains …
Camila Camborda is the Senior Analyst on our Advocacy and Public Engagement Team Most DC students fell behind on math and reading while learning remotely during the pandemic, a new report from EmpowerK12 released this week found. The analysis examines “unfinished learning”, exploring students’ academic performance during the 20-21 school …
Testimony of Managing Partner Bisi Oyedele to the Council of the District of Columbia’s Special Committee on COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery & Committee of the Whole at a hearing on the District’s Public Education System After the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Today, the DC Policy Center released its annual snapshot of DC’s education landscape and school experience, the State of DC Schools Report. Traditionally, this report has presented the plethora of available quantitative data on how DC schools are doing. Unfortunately, due to the disruption caused by the coronavirus, much of the data on things like student performance on annual …
Margie Yeager is a Partner with our Advocacy grant making team. A new report from EmpowerK12 finds that the achievement gap is growing in DC and that DC students are facing a “COVID” learning slide. (Education Forward DC is a funder of EmpowerK12 and funded this report.) According to the …
Margie Yeager is a Partner with our Advocacy grant making team. This week, DC Council unanimously passed legislation to create a lottery preference for at-risk students (students who are in foster care, experience homelessness, receive food support via SNAP and TANF, or — for high school students — who are …
Sean is the senior manager for strategy and impact at Education Forward DC. A partnership between Education Forward DC, the DC Public Education Fund, and Greater Washington Community Foundation launched the DC Education Equity Fund in March to ensure that students had the resources to continue to learn from home …
Margie Yeager is a Partner with our Advocacy grant making team. A new report from the DC Policy Center demonstrates what it would mean to preference equity for at-risk students in the MySchoolDC lottery. (Education Forward DC is a funder of the DC Policy Center and funded this report.) At-Risk …
As Education Forward DC enters its fifth year of supporting the leaders and organizations determined to provide great outcomes for all students, we find ourselves in unprecedented times, facing great challenges. We are looking within our organization and our work to reckon with the systemic racism brought to the forefront …
