D.C. creates five-year schools plan

Published December 18, 2012 5:00am ET



The D.C. agency that oversees DC Public Schools and the city’s charter schools has created a five-year plan detailing goals for improving students’ academic progress and graduation rates, The Washington Examiner has learned.

Under “The District of Columbia State Education Plan,” created by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, schools would need to cut in half the number of students “who are not academically performing as expected” and reduce the number of students who do not graduate from high school by 10 percent each year.

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