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Governor:Vincent Gray (Mayor)
Superintendent of Education:Hosanna Mahaley
Quality Counts state grade:C-
Pre-K-12 enrollment:71,277
Number of school districts:52
Number of public schools:228
Number of public school teachers:5,925
Unadjusted education spending per student:$20,910
Percent minority students:92.9%
Percent of students eligible for free/reduced price lunch:73.0%
Percent of students with disabilities:16.8%
Percent of English-language learners:7.4%
NAEP Mathematics 2011 percent proficient
4th grade math:21.6%
8th grade math:17.0%
NAEP Reading 2011 percent proficient
4th grade reading:18.8%
8th grade reading:16.1%

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Called Teaching for Learning, the framework could become one part of a revamped evaluation system that CPS is to have fully in place by 2013.
July 21, 2011 - Education Week
Hundreds of teachers in the District of Columbia won extra pay in the latest round of performance-based evaluations, but more than 200 others will lose their jobs.
July 15, 2011 - Education Week
Providing useful, relevant information on reform requires balancing the demands of good science and the urgency of sound policy, Michael J. Feuer and Robert M. Hauser write.
July 7, 2011 - Education Week
Few parents who sought—and got—Catholic-school placements for their children in the D.C. voucher program ended up withdrawing.
May 17, 2011 - Education Week
The budget agreement approved by federal lawmakers revived a controversial tuition-voucher program in the nation's capital.
April 26, 2011 - Education Week
The first of a series of outside evaluation reports on the District of Columbia's four-year-old school reform efforts concludes that improving test scores don't tell the whole story.
March 10, 2011 - Education Week
The virtual education company has teamed up with George Washington University to create a fully online private prep school for high schoolers.
January 28, 2011 | Updated: March 24, 2012 - Education Week
Backers of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program are particularly cheered by a GOP sympathetic to their issues.
January 24, 2011 - Education Week
A program begun 20 years ago by the Toyota Corp. helps make literacy learning a family affair.
January 24, 2011 - Education Week
Schools and parents should know better than to emphasize success in sports at the expense of high standards in learning, Richard Whitmire writes.
December 13, 2010 - Education Week

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