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PUTTING EVERY STUDENT IN

THE BEST POSITION TO SUCCEED


Since becoming chairperson of the Committee on Education, Councilmember David Grosso
has been focused on giving every D.C. student the opportunity to succeed in school, career,
and life. Councilmember Grosso has fought to close the achievement gap, promote equity and
accountability, address adversity, and support our teachers and families all so that students are
getting the best education possible, both inside and outside the classroom.

Closing the Achievement Gap and Addressing Adversity

• Passed and funded Books From Birth to foster a


• Increased per student funding and required
love of reading & learning in all D.C. children.
equitable distribution of resources from student
• Gave community-based organizations that
supports to renovations of facilities.
participate in the pre-K enhancement and
• Created the Commission and Office of Out Of
expansion program more funding for their at-risk
School Time Grants and Youth Outcomes and
pre-K students.
invested $20 million to expand high-quality out-
of-school time programming. • Required full-time nurse coverage in D.C. schools.
• Fought cuts to and expanded investments in our • Invested in school-based mental health clinicians.
world-class public library system, including the • Increased wraparound services in school with
soon-to-be modernized MLK Jr. Central Library. expansion of the Community Schools program
year-after-year.
• Banned the expulsion and suspension of three-
and four-year olds in pre-K and severely limited • Invested in trauma-informed schools and
the use of exclusionary practices in K-12 to the provided necessary mental health supports to our
most serious of circumstances. most at-risk youth to reduce the alarming
• Promoted school attendance by investing in numbers of students who attempt, or plan to
truancy interventions, participating in the Every attempt, suicide.
Day Counts Taskforce, and banning the exclusion • Supported peer-led sex education in schools,
of students who miss school. funded teen pregnancy prevention programs for
pregnant and parenting students at both DCPS
• Expanded access to multilingual education across
and public charter schools.
the city by establishing the Office of Multilingual
Education in OSSE. • Supported $700,000 investment in organizational
grants to prevent violence in communities.
• Promoted 3rd grade reading success with creation
of grant program that provides nearly $2 million • Supported the Kids Ride Free Program to lower
annually to early childhood literacy intervention. barriers to school attendance.

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Promoting Equity
and Accountability

• Strengthened OSSE’s state-level, cross-sector


oversight role following review of the Public
Education Reform Amendment Act.
• Pushed the mayor to expand the graduation and
social promotion investigation to charter schools
and all grades.
• Fighting for more transparency in how D.C.
Public Schools creates its annual budget and
expends public dollars.
• Developed and implemented new approach to
school modernizations, so that facility
improvements are completed according to
equity, need, and data—not politics.
• Injected accountability and transparency into
public charter schools by establishing reporting
requirements for conflicts of interest and vendor
contracting.
• Invested in a data warehouse at OSSE to provide
high-quality, actionable data that helps address
student needs.
• Required OSSE to collect data on traditional
public and public charter schools’ use of
exclusionary discipline.
• Created a governing state association
to reorganize D.C. interscholastic athletics.
• Ensure gender equity through Title IX
compliance at D.C. public schools.

Supporting Educators, Students, and Families


• Shepherded a new teacher’s contract through the D.C. Council to increase our educators’ pay.
• Funded training for teachers to support them in educating our students with special education needs and
reducing the use of exclusionary discipline.
• Elevated educator voices through teacher town halls and called for greater participation in education
leader searches.
• Protected students' digital privacy as learning continues to include more electronic devices and as social
media plays a larger role in students' personal and social development.
• Solicited input from our students every year at youth-only hearings.
• Provided families more opportunities to successfully navigate the D.C. education landscape by investing
in the work of the Public Education Ombudsman and Student Advocate.
• Required OSSE to examine how to better provide childcare outside of regular business hours for parents
with non-traditional work schedules.
• Championed universal paid family leave to ensure families have a strong start with critical bonding time
from birth.

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