by Senior Education Research Analyst, Hannah Mason, witnessed Senior Education Research Analyst for the DC Council Committee of the entire performance of the performance. Her testimony was aimed at the strong signs of DC of System Health, modest progress in the direction of academic recovery and investments, the office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) leads to increasing the results of students. Read the testimonials or download a PDF copy below.
DC’s increasing preservation of teachers reflects strong signs of system health. In school year 2023-24, 74 percent of teachers returned to their same school and a role-one increase of three percentage points compared to the previous year. This positive trend continues, with 76 percent of teachers who return to their same school and role for the 2024-25 school year. These retention percentages are important because bad preserving teachers has a negative influence on students’ performance. The progress of DC emphasizes a clear dedication to retaining educators and of the ways in which Osse retains these trends of the preservation of teachers is by launching the first internship in the city in the educational program that offers a free path for the current para-professional to enter the professional occupation.
DC makes modest progress in the learning outcomes after the Pandemic. In school year 2023-24, 34 percent of students met the expectations of the Cape Assessment of the English Language Arts (ELA), which showed no change compared to the previous year and a decrease of three percentage points compared to pre-Pandemic school years. In mathematics, 23 percent of students met or exceeded expectations, an increase of one percentage point compared to the previous year only eight percentage points lower than in the 2018-19 school year.
More promising signs for DC -student results come from the NAEP results of 2024. At the level of the state, the most recent scores of DC are on the same footing with 2022 scores in mathematics for the 8th grade and reading for the 4th and 8th degrees. It is important that DC saw a significant increase of 8 percentage points in mathematics of 4th grade – the exception of growth for all public schools and large cities. DC’s 4th degree Maths score of 231 corresponds to the large city average and is closer to the national public school average of 237. In Reading, the average 4th class score was in DC 209, compared to the national average of 214. These results suggest that DC makes academic profit for its students, a positive sign given the learning disruptions caused by COVID-19-What is promising, since Osse’s many academic investments. These investments include more than 350 educators who complete the science of reading courses, More than $ 33 million dollars in tutoring investments with a high impact during three financial years that reach more than 12,000 students, And hiring dedicated literacy specialists in schools to support local districts with planning and professional learning systems with regard to literacy.
Another sign of the strong health system of DC is the increase in the registration of the public school. Between 1990 and 2019, public school registration grew every year. Nationally, however, the registration at the public school has decreased – decreased by 0.2 percent in the entire country from the autumn 2023 counts. DC, on the other hand, has a different story to tell. In the 2023-24 school year, 90,608 students participated in public schools, an increase of 2.3 percent compared to the previous year, with pre-veloc inchool experiencing the largest registration boost of 3.4. The increase in registrations indicates a high demand for DC Public Schools, which is promising in view of the decrease in births from 2016. These trends take place in the 2024-25 school year with provisional data that show an increase of 1.1 percent of the public school registration.
Looking ahead there is a possibility for DC to build on these system strengths and the modest improvements in learning outcomes.
