“Washington, DC has a unique political configuration because we are not a state,” says Executive Director, David Pickens. “In addition, DC already has most of the policies in place that any reform-minded big-city mayor could want. Instead of lobbying to get reform policies passed,"
"DCSRN is working to create a critical mass of community support for reform policies in order to protect what has already been put into place—such as mayoral control of education, increasing the number of high-performing charter schools, focusing on teacher quality and evaluating teachers based on student performance. We are cultivating authentic community voices to advocate to increase quality school options by building and sustaining a portfolio of high-performing schools and reducing the number of low-performing schools by publicly supporting school closures and turnarounds when other school improvement strategies have failed.”
