Today, Education Forward DC celebrates our third anniversary of working to foster a city of high-quality, equitable public schools for every DC student and family. It has been an inspiring, challenging, rewarding and reflective three-year ...
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Education Forward DC has supported leaders opening schools since our founding in 2016. In March, we launched our formal New Start Grant process as part of our broader effort to expand our network of grantees and ensure that our funding process ...
Education Forward DC supports organizations that amplify the voices of students and families to inform school decisions through our Public Engagement grants. We are proud to support the work of the Black Swan Academy (BSA) as they focus on ...
Annie
Fullas is the Special Assistant to the CEO, Maura Marino
Ethical and philosophical traditions play an essential role in shaping the motivations of individuals and communities. At Education Forward DC, our team’s philosophy is driven by ...
At Education Forward DC, our human capital investments are
focused on ensuring that every public school in DC has the high-quality
teachers and school leaders that students need. Our grants focus not only on increasing
the number of excellent ...
By Margie Yeager
Margie Yeager is a Partner with our Advocacy investments team
At Education Forward DC, we believe that public schools in DC should reflect the citywide diversity of students and families' needs and interests, so that ...
Fonda Sutton is a Partner with our
Public Engagement investments team.
I’ve spent my entire career working in the public education sector here in the District of Columbia for many reasons, but mainly because I believe in the brilliance of ...
On Monday, January 28th, Education Forward DC hosted a webinar to explain how we partner with organizations and entrepreneurs to achieve our five year goal to double the number of underserved students in DC who are college and career ready. ...
2018 has been a busy year for Education Forward DC as we continue to support organizations to foster high-quality, equitable public schools for every student in DC. Our grants have focused on supporting the creation of high-quality public ...
America to Me is a ten-part docu-series by Academy-Award nominated director Steve James that follows a year in the life of students, teachers, and administrators at Oak Park and River Forest High School right outside of Chicago. The series was ...
A fifth generation Washingtonian, Maya Martin worked at Achievement Prep and Center City Public Charter Schools, helped launch the My School DC unified enrollment lottery and was an admissions officer at Dartmouth College before becoming an ...
Celeste Huizar was an intern with the Education Forward DC team from December 2017 to May 2018. Celeste graduated in May 2017 from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in English and a minor in Education. This fall, Celeste began ...