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  • DC Council Budget Hearings Impact Funding for Education Initatives

    • The District of Columbia Council will hold public hearings for the FY2011 budgets of city agencies in April 2010.  Pre K for All DC is interested in how funds are allotted to the City's education agencies because of their direct impact on the city's children. Pre K for All invites all stakeholders in early childhood education to follow and participate in these hearings in order to ensure that all children in the District of Columbia have access to high quality early childhood learning opportunities. 

     

     

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  • DC Council Passes Emergency Legislation to Accelerate Pre-K Implementation

    • On Tuesday January 5, 2010, the Council of the District of Columbia voted unanimously to pass the Pre-K Acceleration and Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2010. This emergency act will fast track the implementation of the landmark Pre-K Enhancement and Expansion Act of 2008 that ensures that all three- and four-year-olds in the District of Columbia have access to high-quality pre-k programs by September 2014.

     

     


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DC Association of Chartered Public Schools

Launched in May of 2004, as a nonprofit organization operating under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code, the mission of the DC Association of Chartered Public Schools is to improve opportunities and outcomes for students by supporting the development, growth, and sustainability of quality charter schools in Washington, DC.

The Association serves all chartered public schools in the District of Columbia. In the 2008 - 2009 school year, nearly 26,000 students are enrolled in DC’s 59 chartered public schools on 95 campuses – that is approximately one-third of the total public school enrollment.  

The vision of the DC Public Charter School Association (DCPCSA) is that the chartered public schools in the District of Columbia, catalyzed and supported by their Association in strategic partnership with others, will become the quality research and learning laboratory that is needed in the nation, to begin to answer critically important unanswered questions about the quality; demand, accessibility, and retention; governance; sustainability; and community development benefits of chartered public schools.

This quality infrastructure is intended to support the Association, chartered public schools, traditional public schools, all students, families, teachers, school leaders and education policy-makers in DC, over time. For more information, call 202-723-4104.