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Earlier today, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that she was nominating Antwan Wilson to be the next Chancellor of DC Public Schools. Mayor Bowser made her selection after a multi-step process that included a set of recommendations from the DCPS ...

Kaya Henderson has spent her career serving DC’s public school students in various positions, and since 2007 has led efforts at DC Public Schools to improve achievement for all of DC’s students.   In 2010, she became the Chancellor, and her ...

Today, the Office of the State Superintendent of Education released the results of the DC state assessment, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC). This spring was the second year that students took the ...

At Education Forward DC, we know that students thrive in schools led by great teachers and leaders. That’s why our strategy includes supporting initiatives to help leaders nurture and retain excellent teachers. One of the tools that we have ...

As summer winds to a close, DC’s students and teachers are heading back to school, and with the new year brings new learning opportunities across the city. While many students headed back on August 22nd, other students are already several ...

Education Forward DC is building on the progress made through NewSchools Venture Fund’s DC Schools Fund. Recently, NewSchools issued a final report detailing the promising outcomes the DC Schools Fund helped to achieve for the city’s schools ...

In order to help our schools better prepare historically underserved student populations, we need to understand how well schools and the city as a whole are supporting those students currently. Beginning in 2012, NewSchools Venture Fund’s DC ...

Washington, DC has a rich set of school options for families. Today, there are over 87,000 students enrolled in public schools. Families can choose from schools with varied programming, including language immersion, Montessori, project-­based ...

At Education Forward DC, we are committed to serving our most vulnerable students. Over time, we have learned more about which students need greater levels of resources and support in order to succeed. In 2014, DC began using a new ...

This summer, 30 principals and principal supervisors are building their instructional leadership skills with support from Education Forward DC. The group is participating in Relay Graduate School of Education’s yearlong National Principal ...

Today, we are thrilled to announce the launch of Education Forward DC! Education Forward DC is a new nonprofit organization working to advance quality and equity in our city’s public schools. Over the next five years, we are committed to ...