About The Project
Reforming the D.C. Board of Education: A Building Block for Better Public Schools, released in September 1999. Nine months after DC Appleseed released a report on the subject, legislation passed through the D.C. Council and through a June 2000 citywide referendum, making several changes to the Board of Education recommended by DC Appleseed. The law clarifies the Board's roles and responsibilities so that it may focus more on setting policy and less on micro-management, decreases the number of Board members to increase the likelihood of cohesiveness, and provides for election of representatives from combined wards instead of single wards to reduce incentives for parochialism.
