What would an at-risk preference do? New MSDC research paper out
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Anonymous
The way a school becomes desirable is that a progressively larger number of high-income families stay there for longer and longer, and work on it while they're there. They don't have to stay forever. |
Anonymous
Was there something in the paper that I missed about a 10% cap or trigger for the preference or is this your personal solution? |
Anonymous
10% was the number proposed during the last boundary review. |
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People are connect 2+2 - and maybe getting 5.
The paper just explored what would have happened if two variants of an at-risk preference had been in palce for this year's lottery. On the policy side, there has been a 10% set aside recommendation for DCPS on the books since the DME boiundary task force; it has never been implemented. |
Anonymous
Why do you think it is easy to add that many students to schools that already have trailers? |
Anonymous
This is a half-baked scheme that won't solve anything and will divert resources from where they're really needed and sow confusion. |
Anonymous
Yes. Thank you that’s what I said about five pages back. It will also consume a lot of political will better directed at other solutions. |
Anonymous
It would not be that mamy. In preschool, it would mean placing at-risk IB ahead of non-at-risk IB students. They are all still IB. If a school is really so crowded, the boundary should be changed. It isn't a good enough reason to avoid taking a fair share of at-risk kids. |
Anonymous
I think somebody just threw 10% out. Here's the recommendations from the boundary review - you'll see 25% or less is the trigger. Placement Priorities for Students Designated “At Risk” Recommendation 23: Starting in SY2016–2017, any DCPS zoned, DCPS citywide (nonselective) and public charter school that has a student body consisting of 25 percent or less at-risk students shall give priority to “at-risk” students for 25 percent of available seats in the lottery for a given year. Implementing this recommendation for public charter schools will require a change in law and engagement with additional stakeholders. Recommendation 24: Starting in SY2016–2017, DCPS selective schools shall provide a priority for at-risk students who meet the admissions criteria for the selective school. Prior to implementation, DCPS should convene appropriate stakeholders, including community members, parents, students, and school staff (including those from selective schools) to determine the details of this policy. The MySchool DC Report correctly uses 25%. And from the report, here's the list of schools that meet the 25% or less at-risk - Appendix B – Schools that qualified for the at-risk preference ? AppleTree Early Learning PCS –Lincoln Park ? BASIS DC PCS ? Breakthrough Montessori PCS ? Brent Elementary School ? Capitol Hill Montessori School @Logan ? Creative Minds International PCS ? Deal Middle School ? District of Columbia International School (Chinese Language Program)* ? District of Columbia International School (French Language Program)* ? District of Columbia International School (Spanish Language Program)* ? Eaton Elementary School ? Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom PCS (French Language Program)* ? Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom PCS (Spanish Language Program)* ? Hardy Middle School ? Hearst Elementary School ? Hyde-Addison Elementary School ? Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS ? Janney Elementary School ? Key Elementary School ? Lafayette Elementary School ? Lee Montessori PCS ? Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School ? Mann Elementary School ? Maury Elementary School ? Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS ? Murch Elementary School ? Oyster-Adams Bilingual School (Adams)* ? Oyster-Adams Bilingual School (Oyster)* ? Oyster-Adams Bilingual School (Oyster) - English Dominant* ? Oyster-Adams Bilingual School (Oyster) - Spanish Dominant* ? Peabody Elementary School ? Ross Elementary School ? School Without Walls @ FrancisStevens ? School-Within-School ? Sela PCS ? Shepherd Elementary School ? Shining Stars Montessori Academy PCS ? Stoddert Elementary School ? Two Rivers PCS at 4th Street ? Two Rivers PCS at Young ? Van Ness Elementary School ? Washington Latin PCS – Middle School ? Washington Latin PCS – Upper School ? Washington Yu Ying PCS ? Watkins Elementary School ? Wilson High School *These are separate school selections in the My School DC application, but are shown as one campus in the OSSE Audited Enrollment File. |
Anonymous
Because it isn't that many kids and the upper grades at the WOTP elementaries see incredible attrition from high income families. |
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This is a half-baked scheme that won't solve anything and will divert resources from where they're really needed and sow confusion. Again, no one scheme solves everything. It could give a few hundred kids access that wouldn't otherwise have it. What is confusing? |
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I think it makes sense to give at-risk kids a preference; I would do it as
IB at-risk IB sibling other IB OOB at-risk OOB sibling other OOB That way, at-risk kids are not pushing out other IB kids (so not contributing to overcrowding), but they are at the top of the list and would get more of the existing spots. |
Anonymous
I agree. |
Anonymous
Because the point is to call their bluff. If it's that crowded, drop preschool or change the boundary. Or is crowding only a problem when it's poor kids? |
Anonymous
This makes zero sense to me. Drop PK, for which at risk students should be the target, to accommodate at risk in upper grades? Many of the desirable schools take few, if any, OOB kids in upper grades. So you'd never get to the 25% MSDC is proposing unless you're adding seats in all upper grades to reach this % threshold, whatever it is. If it's 25%, and you are talking Janney, cutting the two PK classes isn't magically going to create enough classrooms to up the school population overall 25% which is what you would have to do to get 25% at risk since it's easy to presume they are at nearly zero currently AND you've cut your nose off to spite your face because now no one is going to get PK4 services, not even the at risk kids you are purporting to help. |