INTERVIEW _ MAX EDEN - Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute – discussed DC schools audit highlighting corruption in the attendance and graduation of DC students. • Books Cooked at DC Schools: Will Star Chancellor Answer? • That one-third of DCPS students graduated last year despite attendance issues is likely to raise a lot of questions about former chancellor Kaya Henderson’s tenure, since current chancellor Antwan Wilson only started in Feb. 2017\. • Audit: More than a third of DC Public Schools students failed to meet graduation requirements. More than a third of the D.C. Public Schools class of 2017 graduated high school against the district’s grading and attendance policies, according to a report released Monday by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education. The investigation by consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal found attendance policies were rarely followed and credit recovery programs, which allow students to retake courses they’ve failed, were misused at mo
