Schools

Earlier this month, D.C.’s Office of the State Superintendent (OSSE) quietly released an update on the school residency fraud case at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

Nearly two-thirds of students who stood accused of committing residency fraud at the District’s acclaimed arts school have been cleared, according to a city investigation.

At some point soon, as early as this week, the Council will vote on legislation for an education research collaborative—an independent research body that will conduct studies on the city’s public schools. The idea is to better determine how…

Rigorous research on public education systems can be revelatory: Knowledge that researchers generate through their study of school data can change education practices, policies and schools. But to do so, researchers must be able to hold an…

Within the confines of a nearly century-old building perched on a hill along Georgia Avenue in Northwest, the staff at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School have prepared legions of young people from the across the District for the…

A panel advising D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on the selection of a chancellor to lead the District’s public schools has disbanded, suggesting that the search for a new education chief may be nearing an end.

In a school district that has struggled with attendance, the top public school bucking the trend doesn’t actually require kids to come to class.

The graduation numbers for the last school year in D.C. are finally in, and they don’t look great — for black and Latino students in D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) in particular.

The graduation rate for the District’s traditional public high schools slid 4.6 percentage points in 2018 — marking the first decline since at least 2011 and coming amid heightened scrutiny over whether District students properly earn their…

It only takes a moment to realize that the Duke Ellington School of the Arts (DESA) is exceptional. Music, performance and visual arts emanates from everywhere within this Washington, DC high school, which was founded by passionate…

Enrollment increased 2 percent this school year in the District’s traditional public school system, outpacing growth in the robust charter school sector, which educates nearly half of the city’s public school students.

The District’s top education officials surprised a teacher in her elementary school this week, anointing her the city’s 2019 Teacher of the Year while students filled the cafeteria.

A four-year-old lawsuit challenging the District’s treatment of charter schools continued in court Monday, with a coalition of charters arguing to federal judges that the city’s unequal funding of schools is breaking the law.