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Washington Post: Lowest performing D.C. Public Schools should become charters

  • September 15, 2015
  • The Progressive Policy Institute

David Osborne’s newest report, “A Tale of Two Systems: Education Reform in Washington D.C.“, was featured as an exclusive in the Washington Post:

The D.C. Public Schools is not equipped to improve its lowest-performing schools and should have the ability to convert them to charter schools, according to a report being released this week by the Progressive Policy Institute.

What the traditional school system is missing is greater autonomy to create specialty programs, extend school days, and shut down failing schools, or replicate high performing ones, the report said.

“For struggling schools in poor neighborhoods, no strategy has been more effective,” said the report which was authored by David Osbourne, director of the the Institute’s project on Reinventing America’s Schools.

D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson has long said that she would like to use charters as a tool to turn around low-performing schools.

Continue reading at the Washington Post.

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