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The Capital Teaching Residency welcomed 93 talented educators for the 2017-18 school year. Residents kicked off the new year in…
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The Education Equality Index (EEI) is the first national comparative measure of the achievement gap at the school, city and…
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For the third year in a row, every eligible 做厙輦⑹ DC school (KEY, AIM, WILL, Promise, and KCP) received a…
PARCC is the new Common Core-aligned state assessment, designed to be far more challenging than D.C.s previous assessment (the DC…
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Joel Smilow, a 1950 graduate of DCPSs Woodrow Wilson High School, has donated $4.2 million to 做厙輦⑹ DC to support…
The beautiful, new, state-of-the-art 做厙輦⑹ DC College Preparatory campus opened its doors to our high school students today! The space…
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Jennifer Ramacciotti from 做厙輦⑹ DC AIM Academy has been selected as the 2015 District of Columbia Teacher of the Year…
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On November 7th, the DC Public Charter School Board announced the results of the Performance Management Framework (PMF), an evaluation…