Hotter Than July ; School Reformers in the Hot Seat

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What will it take to turn around D.C. Public Schools? With all the hot air that blows around Washington, you'd think the answer would be a shot or two of freon.

Everybody in charge already knows the answers. Yet, here they are, waiting for yet another group of experts to point out what they already know: The city's school system is costly, inefficient and ineffective to the extreme, and student outcomes are at the bottom of the barrel.

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Hotter Than July ; School Reformers in the Hot Seat

Everybody in charge knows this because it's all everybody who's anybody in D.C. has talked about for more than two very long decades. Indeed, the current mayor of D.C., Adrian Fenty, was himself a teenager growing up in Mount Plea...

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