Office of the State Superintendent of Education

The DC Council roundtable held last week to examine the findings and recommendations of the recently released audit on education data — “Measuring What Matters: More and Better Data Needed to Improve DC Public Schools” — was a case of…

The District has been unable to determine how at-risk children are performing in public schools because critical data “on attendance, dropout rates, in-school suspension rates, graduation rates, post-high school college and career success…

As an early childhood educator in DC, I thought I would be eligible to sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine this week. It's a promise Mayor Muriel Bowser made earlier this month. Early childhood educators have been working to keep their centers…

A decade and a half ago, the District of Columbia lagged far behind the rest of the country in education. Our results on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) consistently ranked us at the bottom in reading and math…

The assembly had all the trappings of your average pep rally. The cheer squad warmed up the middle school crowd, and an African drum group made up of fifth-graders performed. But the television cameras and the arrival of the mayor were big…

La’Rissa Dunn experienced a few surprises on her journey as one of 42 OSSE Scholars this summer — from a typo that made her think maybe she hadn’t been accepted into the program, to a college match she wasn’t expecting, to perplexing…

It’s often said that failing to prepare is preparing to fail. Unfortunately, that can all too often be said of DC’s education leaders — and the latest instance, occurring right now, has extreme consequences for the city’s most vulnerable…

Three finalists for the 2020 DC Teacher of the Year were announced today by Mayor Muriel Bowser's administration: Beth Barkley, English teacher at Cardozo Education Campus’ International Academy; Justin Lopez-Cardoze, seventh-grade life…

DC green thumbs can skip the long waitlists for community garden plots and connect instead with underused growing spaces through Shared Roots, a city-run summer program. “There are people who want to garden. There are spaces that need…