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Ruth Wattenberg

Ruth Wattenberg

Education Policy Analyst, Advocate, Writer

  • Ruth in the Media
    • What We Need to Know About DC Schools–and Don’t. WaPo op-ed.
    • Our kids need us to institute robust, independent oversight of our schools
    • What DC Test Scores Don’t Tell Us: from the Washington Post
    • A Memo to the DC Public Schools Chancellor
    • The Canary in the Classroom: Teacher Turnover in DC Schools
  • Issues
    • School Overcrowding
      • Letter to DC Council: Don’t Give Up Old Hardy
      • Community Working Group Report
      • Support Fillmore, resolution from ANC 3B
      • Ward3/Wilson Feeder School EdNet Letter on Overcrowding (2019)
      • CM Cheh’s letter on Foxhall School
    • School Budgets
      • Spring 2022 School Budgets
      • Mayor’s education budget decreases real dollars for city’s schools
      • Wilson Budget Primer
      • CW Mary Cheh’s Letter to Mayor re: Wilson High School budget
      • Janney Parents on the Budget Cuts
      • DCPS Report to Council on Use of Extra Funds, 9/17
      • 2016 Wilson High School Budget Cuts
      • Mayor’s education budget decreases real dollars for city’s schools
    • Well Rounded Education
    • Governance, Oversight, Data
      • 8th grade reading, NAEP, DCPS
  • Star Rating
    • State Board of Education Adopts “ESEA Waiver Report.” 2015
    • Dashboard Example
    • New accountability plan is adopted by the State Board of Education (April 2017)
    • Ward 3 Comments on ESSA proposal
  • SBOE
    • Letter to SBOE re: new report card, from SHAPPE
    • SBOE Resolution: Refining the Definition of Economically Disadvantaged Students
    • Letter to Council Chair on dyslexia bill
    • What the Board of Ed Can Do
  • Testimony to DC Council
    • Testimony on budgeting for large schools
    • Ruth’s Testimony to City Council on School Budgets 2016
    • Ruth’s Testimony on Independent Education Research
    • How Mayoral Control Can Work Better, 2018 testimony to DC Council
    • Dyslexia testimony
    • Decoding Dyslexia DC, testimony info, Feb 2
    • Testimony to DC Council
    • Our kids need us to institute robust, independent oversight of our schools
    • Wilson Parents Testimony to City Council 5/12/17
      • What I’m for
        • Rich curriculum
        • Right-size testing
        • Rigorous Standards
        • Finding Accountability’s Sweet Spot
  • Past Newsletters
    • Letter to SBOE re: new report card, from SHAPPE
    • Late August 2021 PDF Newsletter
    • Mid-August 2021 PDF Newsletter
    • Early August 2021 PDF Newsletter
    • May 2021 PDF Newsletter
    • Late April-May 2021 PDF Newsletter
    • Mid-April 2021 PDF Newsletter
    • Late March-Early April 2022 PDF Newsletter
    • March 2022 PDF Newsletter
    • January-February 2021 PDF Newsletter
    • October-November 2021 STAR Special Issue! PDF Newsletter
    • September-October 2021 PDF Newsletter
    • Late August-September 2021 PDF Newsletter
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