Summary
As Mayor Adrian Fenty and the D.C. Council maneuver over his legislative proposal to assume much greater control of the D.C. Public Schools (DCPS), citizens and taxpayers must understand one basic fact: Based on rankings among other large central-city public school systems throughout America, it is impossible for DCPS to get any worse.
DCPS already occupies the educational basement among comparable school systems. Relative to the achievements in reading and mathematics of students in other major American cities, D.C. students not only generally perform more poorly across the board; in nearly all cases, they do so by significantly large margins.See the full content of this document
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Measuring D.C. Schools
For several years, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has been conducting its Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA). NAEP is a congressionally mandated project that educators and parents consider to be "the Nati...
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