As a budget and policy analyst, an education finance lawyer, and a DCPS parent, I have been collecting data and otherwise involved in DC public education for over 40 years.  My contribution on the subject of today’s hearing is to provide data on the District’s scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

 Although the scores of DC as a whole and of DCPS are part of the agency’s standard reporting, charter sector scores are not, so I have extracted them from NAEP’s on-line data tool.  This is a lot of work, meaning that you are not likely to get these data elsewhere.  Therefore, at the end of my written testimony is a full set of graphs with the scores that I have extracted in reading and math, 4th grade and 8th grade.

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