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Progress slows in closing achievement gaps in D.C. schools
- 08-27-2010
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By Bill Turque/Washington Post
After two years of progress, Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's effort to narrow the vast achievement gap separating white and African American students in D.C. public schools has stalled, an analysis of 2010 test score data shows. The slowed pace of improvement comes as Mayor Adrian M. Fenty makes transformation of the city's long-struggling school system a signature issue in his tightly contested Democratic primary race with D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray. It is also a setback for Rhee, who established closure of the gap as an imperative when she accepted Fenty's appointment as chancellor in 2007. She called the disparity "unacceptable" and pledged to eliminate it as a matter of educational and social justice. (more…)
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