Just read an interesting story by Michelle Lerner of UrbanTurf from earlier this week.  Lerner wrote about the increase of DC residents over the past year, and how that might be related to DC’s education system.

“The steady exodus of families from DC to the suburbs for the promise of better schools may be slowing,” Lerner wrote at the beginning of her piece.  ”Anecdotal and hard evidence suggest that more families are opting to stay in DC and send their kids to public schools rather than retreat to the suburbs.”

The statistics are telling.

“Census statistics released in December 2009 show that the District gained about 9,600 residents since July 2008, and the city’s population is expected to surpass 600,000 when the 2010 census is taken,”  Lerner explained.  ”This is the opposite of DC’s population trends in the past. For several years in the 1990’s and as recently as 2003, the city had a net loss of more than 10,000 residents a year.”

One of the major issues with DC’s youth education system, which Lerner touches on, is that certain community’s public schools are head and shoulders above other neighborhoods’.  This is a common problem in many American metropolises, and it’s something the DC government says they are really trying to fix. While Michelle Rhee was appointed “Chancellor of Public Schools” by Mayor Fenty in 2007 to narrow the education gap between the richest and poorest areas of DC, the gap still remains.

Read Lerner’s full article here.

These statistics seems to be good news for DC condo buyers.  Whether they are looking to start a family or already have and are ready to enroll their children in the DC school system, the numbers should be comforting.

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