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Lisa Gartner

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Lisa Gartner covers D.C.-area public schools for The Washington Examiner. She joined the paper in 2010 after graduating from Northwestern University. She lives in the District, and has written for Texas Monthly, Chicago, Conde Nast Traveler and USA WEEKEND. Herself a product of public K-12 schools, Lisa lost her gold star on the first day of kindergarten.

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  • D.C. charter schools eye city's first pre-K-12 language immersion

    Lisa Gartner

    Published: Wed, Dec 19, 2012

    D.C. charter schools are set to offer students language immersion from prekindergarten through graduation for the first time, as four schools join forces to create an international secondary school. Advocates of the District of Columbia International School say it would assuage the anxieties...

  • D.C. creates five-year schools plan

    Lisa Gartner

    Published: Tue, Dec 18, 2012

    The D.C. agency that oversees DC Public Schools and the city's charter schools has created a five-year plan detailing goals for improving students' academic progress and graduation rates, The Washington Examiner has learned. Under "The District of Columbia State Education Plan," created by the...

  • Maryland releases new rating system for schools

    Lisa Gartner

    Published: Mon, Dec 17, 2012

    Montgomery County students met new performance goals introduced by the state on Monday, which go beyond No Child Left Behind's focus on test scores to measure student growth, graduation rates and progress toward closing the achievement gap for minority students. But even though Montgomery...

  • Report: DCPS scores have not improved with reforms

    Lisa Gartner

    Published: Mon, Dec 17, 2012

    Third-graders in DC Public Schools have failed to show any gains in math or reading since aggressive school reforms began in 2007, according to an independent analysis of the city's standardized test scores. The report, to be released Monday by the nonprofit DC Action for Children, also...

  • Fairfax school board uses poker chips for meeting

    Lisa Gartner

    Published: Sat, Dec 15, 2012

    The Fairfax County School Board has a lot on its plate this year: students struggling at its best high school, a $100 million budget gap and, now, intense pushback from parents over the proposed expansion of the schools' gifted program. Recently, board members decided to solve at least one of...

  • Gov. McDonnell proposes 2 percent raise for Virginia teachers

    Lisa Gartner

    Updated: Thu, Dec 13, 2012

    Gov. Bob McDonnell said he would earmark $58.7 million for a 2 percent salary increase for Virginia teachers next year in exchange for less job security for those very same teachers. It's a plan that wasn't well-received Thursday in Northern Virginia, where most of the raises would still come...

  • Mary Cheh, Vince Gray fight over NW's Hearst Elementary School

    Lisa Gartner

    Published: Thu, Dec 13, 2012

    Ward 3 Councilwoman Mary Cheh delivered a brutal tongue-lashing to D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray Thursday over repeated delays to the renovation of a Northwest elementary school. But Gray disagrees with her analysis. Hearst Elementary was due to be upgraded this fall, but its modernization was...

  • D.C. students score low on nutrition, disease prevention tests

    Lisa Gartner

    Published: Wed, Dec 12, 2012

    D.C. students have significant lapses in their knowledge of personal health, safety skills, disease prevention and other health topics including alcohol and drugs, according to the results of a first-time standardized test released Wednesday. State Superintendent of Education Hosanna Mahaley...

  • MontCo to consider starting high school later in morning

    Lisa Gartner

    Published: Tue, Dec 11, 2012

    Montgomery County Public Schools is considering later start times for high schools following protests from parents over their exhausted students. Superintendent Joshua Starr announced Tuesday that he had convened a work group of school officials to examine the research on adolescent sleep...

  • Joshua Starr asks MontCo for extra $10m for schools

    Lisa Gartner

    Published: Mon, Dec 10, 2012

    Montgomery County Superintendent Joshua Starr is proposing a $2.217 billion budget for the school system, about $10 million more than the minimum funding level the County Council warned him to stick to, as Starr says he is looking to build up the schools after years of cuts. "While this is not...


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