The Lowest Perfoming School District

"Washington is the lowest-performing school district in the nation. Only 12% of D.C. eighth graders are proficient readers, 8% in math. A mere 60% of high schoolers finish in four years with a diploma."
- Wall Street Journal

"D.C. public schools also spent about $25,000 per child in the 2007-08 school year."
- Cato Institute