2022-23 - State of D.C. Schools - Challenges to pandemic recovery in a new normal

It excludes the overage and Assessment of Readiness for College and in high school group included in Careers (PARCC), for the second time after a the at-risk designation. [...] In the group have a student growth percentile fact, they have returned to the levels of eight above the MGP, and half of the students in years ago. [...] Reading Clinic was established in invested significant resources in improving 201853 and offers two specific programs to literacy rates, in part due to the implemen- DCPS educators: the InSchools program tation of the Addressing Dyslexia and Oth- and the CityWide program. [...] Using a sample of approxi- mately half of all kindergarten through grade 2 students, an EmpowerK12 analysis found EARLY LITERACY TASK FORCE that 59 percent of students met benchmarks by the end of school year 2022-23, surpass- REPORT ing 49 percent in the previous year and 55 In 2022, OSSE convened an early liter- percent in the pre-pandemic school year acy taskforce to discuss major invest- 2018-. [...] In ic absenteeism declined to 43.7 percent in school year 2022-23, 70 percent of teach- school year 2022-23, a 4.4 percentage point ers stayed in the same position at the same decrease from 48.1 percent in school year school following a brief improvement during 2021-22 (see Figure 17).