This results in a tool capable of analyzing the retirement income adequacy
of various demographic groups under baseline assumptions as well as various policy scenarios.
While white, black and Hispanic children all made modest test score gains in DC since 2003, the Rhee agenda has not significantly narrowed achievement gaps between
the various demographic groups, nor has it brought disadvantaged DC youth up to the national average scores for peers of their same race and class in other cities.
But the single thread that ties
these various demographic groups together is their ignorance to the collapsing economy and world around them.