As Sheila Carr prepares for her 30th school year as an education advocate, District education officials continue to celebrate what’s been described as consistent gains in reading and math proficiency since students’ post-pandemic return to the classroom.

Even so, Carr says that she and other parents remain anxious about the quality of the literacy instruction that young people receive in District public and public charter schools. For her, it’s imperative that teachers and administrators across the city are equipped with the tools to help young people struggling with dyslexia.

“The D.C. Council and the mayor need to make sure that the D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) Reading Clinic is getting proper funding so that they could train more teachers in the Science of Reading,” said Carr, a mother

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