D.C. Council Member Adrian Fenty can look at today’s report from the State Education Office and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to understand a takeover of D.C. Public Schools means more than ensuring widgets are ordered, the bathrooms are cleaned and textbooks arrive on time. It certainly extends beyond whether the superintendent is supervised by the D.C Board of Education or a deputy mayor.

The Bridgespan Group, working at the behest of the SEO and the Gates Foundation, looked at 4,300 ninth-grade students in the 2001-02 school year. Based on research, the group found that most do not graduate from high school; 32 percent do not enroll in college; and 69 percent do not graduate from college in five years.

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