Fixing D.C. Schools

washingtonpost.com

Project by Liz Heron, Nelson Hsu, Adrian Holovaty, Nancy Donaldson, Dee Swann and Ben de la Cruz

For decades, the District's public schools have resisted scores of reform plans and multiple changes in leadership to remain among the most troubled in the nation. As Mayor Adrian M. Fenty orchestrates the latest attempt to fix the schools, The Post is examining why the problems have been so difficult to solve.