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Education Forward DC’s CEO Bisi Oyedele delivered the following testimony to the Council of the District of Columbia’s Committee of the Whole at a hearing on the Teacher and Leader Turnover and Retention.
Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and ...
Significantly fewer DC students are on track for college and career after more than two years of disrupted learning, according to the first citywide assessments administered since 2019.
The results released today by the Office of the State ...
In spring 2022, Education Forward DC funded a staffing innovation pilot to support schools in exploring how they might innovate on their staffing model to increase teacher satisfaction and boost retention. The project was simple but ambitious: ...
Last month, DC students shared their experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic with participants at Better Than Before, the first in a series of events hosted by Education Forward DC and The Equity Lab to help education leaders, schools, and ...
The Board of Directors has chosen Bisi Oyedele to succeed Maura Marino as Education Forward DC’s Chief Executive Officer in September.
Last year Education Forward DC embarked on its second round of investing in the visionary leaders who are transforming education to ensure great public schools for every student in the District of Columbia.
As part of this new fund of ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...