Education

We dug into new data from the 2019-2020 D.C. Public Schools lottery to see which schools had the most competition for seats – and which didn't have any seats open at all.

The fight over the D.C. private school voucher program, the only federally funded program of its kind, is heating up as the Trump administration wants to double the size of the program while House Democrats scrutinize its operations.

The D.C. Attorney General’s Office on Monday sued a man who recruited foreign teachers to work in District schools, saying he charged teachers high fees for services he did not provide and threatened them with deportation if they didn’t…

A Nobel Prize-winning economist designed an algorithm that transformed where Washington kids go to school. But how far can it go in addressing segregation and inequality?

The new private school coming to the former Intelsat headquarters remains on schedule to open for classes Sept. 5, according to Chairman and CEO Chris Whittle, after D.C. officials imposed a stop-work order because the project lacked a…

A little over a year after Antwan Wilson resigned as D.C. Public Schools chancellor, the city council unanimously approved Mayor Muriel Bowser’s selection of former Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent Lewis Ferebee to lead a D.C.…

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s pick to lead the District’s public schools appears poised for confirmation by the D.C. Council, with a majority of the 13 members indicating they plan to vote Tuesday for Lewis D. Ferebee as the city’s next…

I recently testified before the D.C. Council to share my priorities and vision to lead D.C. Public Schools into its next phase of excellence. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach to building a strong school system focused on…

In education policy circles, accountability and metrics are frequent topics for discussion and debate. In the rest of the country, people just want to know how our schools are doing and whether our children are getting a good education.…

The bell at D.C.’s newest school will be ringing this fall.

After extended listening sessions — where acting schools chancellor Lewis Ferebee visited schools, parent groups and sat through hours of testimony in Council hearing — the chancellor announced some major changes within his upcoming budget…

Three years after launching an expensive education experiment, the District is eliminating extended school years at 13 campuses after city leaders said there was scant evidence of improved academic achievement, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D)…

The experiment of tying teachers’ evaluations and pay to student test scores is over. It captured the imagination of decision-makers in D.C., Denver and nationwide a decade ago. As Post columnist David Von Drehle pointed out, the demand to…

The top three educational leaders in the District of Columbia all have one thing in common: they’ve all studied under a wealthy philanthropist’s educational leadership program that promotes a business perspective in the management of…

Advocates and parents resign themselves to hoping for the best.