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We continue to be busy in our grantmaking and provided over $6 million in grant commitments since November to 14 grantees in service of our goal of doubling the number of underserved students in DC who are college and career ready. Our most ...
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. ...
Education
Forward DC’s mission is to support visionary education leaders to foster a city
of high-quality, equitable public schools for every DC student and family. In
the two and half years since we launched, we have supported more than 40 ...
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 ...
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 ...
An Interview with Education Forward DC CEO, Maura Marino: Leading the Charge for Better D.C. Schools
Thank you to Tom Vander Ark for hosting Education Forward DC’s CEO, Maura Marino, on his Getting Smart podcast.
Learn more about Maura, Education Forward DC’s work and mission, and DC’s education ecosystem by listening to the ...
By Ryan Jones
If you’re one of the thousands of families in DC who just submitted school choices in the citywide school lottery, My School DC, you know that finding information and comparing schools across the city’s traditional and charter ...
This evening, Taylor Parson will be recognized as one of seven outstanding teachers at the Standing Ovation for DC Public Schools (DCPS) annual awards event hosted by the DC Public Education Fund. Ms. Parson, a fourth-grade teacher at Anne ...
