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Director, @FutureEdGU at Georgetown U's McCourt School. Former Brookings, Carnegie. Clips: Atlantic, NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Newsweek, USN, TNR...
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Testimony: Protect Funding for the Advanced Technical Centers

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By Thomas Toch
| FutureEd Verified
FutureEd Director Thomas Toch presented written testimony to the Council of the District of Columbia on May 7, 2026, addressing the Council’s proposal to eliminate funding for Advanced Technical Centers in District of Columbia high schools. Thank you for the opportunity to testify. My name is Thomas Toch. I am the director of FutureEd, a non-partisan education think tank at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.
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Trump Administration Latest Move Against DEI Threatens Local Education Control

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By Thomas Toch
| FutureEd Verified
Late last month, Education Secretary Linda McMahon celebrated what she called the Trump administration’s “unprecedented progress in reducing the federal education footprint” and “giving education back to the states” as she announced that the U.S. Department of Education would be moving out of its headquarters at the Lyndon B. Johnson building in Washington.
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A Path Forward for Democrats on Education

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By Thomas Toch
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This piece originally appeared in Washington Monthly. The state of American student achievement is alarming. Test scores have been declining in most states for a decade or more. A third of the nation’s students can barely read by the end of middle school. Nearly a quarter are chronically absent. To address the crisis, the country must upgrade public education, where 90 percent of American children are educated. For much of the last 40 years, that was bipartisan work, nationally and in the states.
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