Not exact matches
With an average score of 258, DC students attending DCPS
regular public schools fall roughly
around the national average for sixth graders in 2015 (students nationally scored 281 on average in 2015).
Not only do we get
around 75 percent of the funding of
regular district
schools, but many of our
schools pay all facilities expenses, which means rent, utilities, snow removal, security, roof repairs and everything else that district
public schools get for free.
This attempt to turn
around an existing large and troubled
school was unlike anything it had attempted before, marking the first true test of whether a charter's formula for success might be applied to
regular public schools.