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We’re excited to share with you our 2024 Impact Report, detailing our work over the last year investing in leaders who are committed to recovering and reimagining education in DC and confronting the challenges before us by growing high-quality ...
Education Forward DC’s Partner for Schools, Talent, and Equity Rashida Young delivered the following testimony to the Council of the District of Columbia’s Committee of the Whole at a November 20,2024 hearing on Oversight of Education for ...
Schools across the District of Columbia are back in session! The entire Ed Forward DC team is so happy to see the smiling faces of students returning to class after their summer break we wanted to share some of that joy from a few of the ...
Education Forward DC has partnered with the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) and Flamboyan Foundation to assist schools in building more positive school climates that support student well-being and academic ...
Education remains a top funding priority for the District of Columbia, thanks to the work of Mayor Bowser and the DC Council. In late June, the Council finalized its changes to the mayor’s proposed fiscal year 2025 budget, building on the ...
Today Education Forward DC, in partnership with Transcend, released Supporting Student and Staff Well-Being: School Pilots in Action, a white paper exploring what four public schools in the District of Columbia learned through piloting ...
Join us for the release of updated data examining students’ well-being, building on the work started last year to understand better how students are fairing during the return to in-person learning. Then hear from a panel of school leaders as ...
We’re failing a key group who may be key to our students' success: Black male educators.
“Black men are coming into education more than any other demographic,” said Rictor Craig, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the National ...
Education Forward DC’s Managing Partner Margie Yeager delivered the following testimony to the Council of the District of Columbia’s Committee of the Whole at a hearing on DC's fiscal year 2025 budget for the education sector.
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We’re excited to share with you our 2023 Impact Report, detailing our work over the last year investing in leaders who are committed to recovering and reimagining education in DC and confronting the challenges before us by growing high-quality ...
DC students made gains on citywide assessments compared to the previous year, according to data released late last month by the DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education. This increase is positive—particularly for schools that ...