DC School Report Cards are up

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Anonymous wrote:If you haven't seen this, here's where you can actually see all the schools ranked by their score. Filtering for low at-risk numbers is interesting, for instance.

https://empowerk12.org/star-frameworks-dash

CMI is the worst performing school in the city when you filter for 20% or less at-risk kids.

I’m not surprised. They need to be closed. Let a well-managed school take over.

I feel bad for those CMI kids who are going to all transfer out now and find themselves so far behind.

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Anonymous wrote:WaPo has a few more details on the money going to the ten lowest-rated schools — they are taking the same amount money that has gone to schools to improve in the past, but now are concentrating it in fewer schools.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/local/education/star-ratings-show-dc-schools-that-need-the-most-help/2018/12/07/76f1f6d2-fa43-11e8-863c-9e2f864d47e7_story.html

I honestly think it's really unfair that Langley's getting money. I know people that send their kids there, well beyond preschool, and there's just no way it's the second-worst elementary school in the entire city. That may be what the numbers spit out, but there's no way it's actually that bad.

This. It should go to our IB Walker-Jones. They got three stars and that is crazy to me. I toured last year and would definitely rather be at Langley.

These ratings - by design - reflect PARCC proficiency and growth Whatever is or isn’t happening at Walker Jones, its students outperforming Langley on both measures.

Seems like someone should dig in and figure out why. Langley has had this PARCC data since summer. What is the principals strategy?

I just don't think one year of PARCC data is that big a deal, I guess. Walker-Jones didn't do as well last year, and Langley did better last year. Which is a trend and which is a blip?

Langley's scores has been declining for the last 3 years while majority of the district has been increasing. They should get the money, but with very strong oversight

Good point. I have no issue with poorly performing schools getting extra money, but is the money just thrown at them? Shouldn't it be more focused and overseen?[/quote

I agree with you but you will be called racist

Of course it is not just thrown at them. They have to make a plan to spend it, which is then approved by downtown. Some examples might be hiring more teachers to reduce average class size, hiring professionals for academic intervention with kids who are way behind, and more support for students who are homeless or have experienced trauma.

In my opinion this money reflects the true cost of educating kids who are growing up in difficult circumstances. It's not in any way a bonus. It's just enabling the school to do what needs to be done. I would like to see every school with a high proportion of at-risk kids get their own $1,000,000. Because that's what it takes. For far too long DCPS has been pretending these kids can be served on the cheap, and it doesn't work.

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Real question for the CMI parents-- how is the school responding to these? Asking because we have a two year old and live a couple blocks away, and I can't imagine that I can ask about ESSA at an open house without looking like "that" parent?

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Anonymous wrote:If you haven't seen this, here's where you can actually see all the schools ranked by their score. Filtering for low at-risk numbers is interesting, for instance.

https://empowerk12.org/star-frameworks-dash

CMI is the worst performing school in the city when you filter for 20% or less at-risk kids.

Basically, if you have a white kid without SN - DO NOT send them to CMI.

Black kid too. Not to worry, they will still have 1000 applicants because #whitepeoplelikewhitepeople #itsoktotutor

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Anonymous wrote:Real question for the CMI parents-- how is the school responding to these? Asking because we have a two year old and live a couple blocks away, and I can't imagine that I can ask about ESSA at an open house without looking like "that" parent?

I would judge a prospective parent more for not asking these questions

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Anonymous wrote:Real question for the CMI parents-- how is the school responding to these? Asking because we have a two year old and live a couple blocks away, and I can't imagine that I can ask about ESSA at an open house without looking like "that" parent?

I would judge a prospective parent more for not asking these questions

The data has been trending in the wrong direction. The new report cards aren't showing anything that hasn't been known for at least 2-3 years.

The teaching staff is among the worst paid at any charter school. Teacher turnover rate is high.

So many red flags.

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Anonymous wrote:If you haven't seen this, here's where you can actually see all the schools ranked by their score. Filtering for low at-risk numbers is interesting, for instance.

https://empowerk12.org/star-frameworks-dash

CMI is the worst performing school in the city when you filter for 20% or less at-risk kids.

Basically, if you have a white kid without SN - DO NOT send them to CMI.

Was a terrible place for our SN child, too. SN is a big umbrella. While I imagine they do some things well in that arena, there are LOTS of gaps and deficits.

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While Paul PCS is a 2 for MS and a 3 for HS, what are the plans for schools scoring in the 2s?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you haven't seen this, here's where you can actually see all the schools ranked by their score. Filtering for low at-risk numbers is interesting, for instance.

https://empowerk12.org/star-frameworks-dash

CMI is the worst performing school in the city when you filter for 20% or less at-risk kids.

I’m not surprised. They need to be closed. Let a well-managed school take over.

I feel bad for those CMI kids who are going to all transfer out now and find themselves so far behind.

Former CMI family, this was true for us.

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Anonymous wrote:Real question for the CMI parents-- how is the school responding to these? Asking because we have a two year old and live a couple blocks away, and I can't imagine that I can ask about ESSA at an open house without looking like "that" parent?

I would judge a prospective parent more for not asking these questions

Not really the best place to ask. They can only answer in very broad ways in an OH unless you can get someone one on one. When we went to CMI OH a couple years ago it was so crowded that was NOT possible.

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Anonymous wrote:While Paul PCS is a 2 for MS and a 3 for HS, what are the plans for schools scoring in the 2s?

There doesn't seem to be a city-wide plan for schools receiving 2s on the DC Schools report card

For a charter school like Paul, the PMF rankings are what matters. Paul HS is Tier 2 (of 3) and the MS is Tier 3. Tier 3 triggers a corrective action plan and increased monitoring, observations.

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Anonymous wrote:While Paul PCS is a 2 for MS and a 3 for HS, what are the plans for schools scoring in the 2s?

There doesn't seem to be a city-wide plan for schools receiving 2s on the DC Schools report card

For a charter school like Paul, the PMF rankings are what matters. Paul HS is Tier 2 (of 3) and the MS is Tier 3. Tier 3 triggers a corrective action plan and increased monitoring, observations.

Paul is a hot mess surprised it scored even that and hasn't outright imploded by now, they can't keep their teachers google and look at the reviews. For even more insight request minutes of school board meetings! Parents who don't send their children to the charters that score low don't have a clue about how bad some of them really are. When you are constantly hiring unqualified teachers and pay them a pittance but demand greatness just to keep viable - what do you expect. It's not just Paul but others as well...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WaPo has a few more details on the money going to the ten lowest-rated schools — they are taking the same amount money that has gone to schools to improve in the past, but now are concentrating it in fewer schools.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/local/education/star-ratings-show-dc-schools-that-need-the-most-help/2018/12/07/76f1f6d2-fa43-11e8-863c-9e2f864d47e7_story.html

I honestly think it's really unfair that Langley's getting money. I know people that send their kids there, well beyond preschool, and there's just no way it's the second-worst elementary school in the entire city. That may be what the numbers spit out, but there's no way it's actually that bad.

This. It should go to our IB Walker-Jones. They got three stars and that is crazy to me. I toured last year and would definitely rather be at Langley.

These ratings - by design - reflect PARCC proficiency and growth Whatever is or isn’t happening at Walker Jones, its students outperforming Langley on both measures.

Seems like someone should dig in and figure out why. Langley has had this PARCC data since summer. What is the principals strategy?

I'm not the principal (or even a Langley parent), but if you are interested, the principal addressed the scores and ratings on the school blog. https://www.langleyelementary.org/tiger-tales. Basically, it sounds like these scores catch Langley in year 2 of the principal's 5 year plan to turn the school around, and that it looks like the school has started performing well in the younger grades, and has actually stopped losing as much ground in the upper grades. We'll see.

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So what's the bottom line on thes utility of these things for parents?

It seems like it's primarily designed to determine where to direct extra funds and not to determine the comparable quality of the various schools. I shudder to think how much DCPS spent on consultants to develop this.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While Paul PCS is a 2 for MS and a 3 for HS, what are the plans for schools scoring in the 2s?

There doesn't seem to be a city-wide plan for schools receiving 2s on the DC Schools report card

For a charter school like Paul, the PMF rankings are what matters. Paul HS is Tier 2 (of 3) and the MS is Tier 3. Tier 3 triggers a corrective action plan and increased monitoring, observations.

Paul is a hot mess surprised it scored even that and hasn't outright imploded by now, they can't keep their teachers google and look at the reviews. For even more insight request minutes of school board meetings! Parents who don't send their children to the charters that score low don't have a clue about how bad some of them really are. When you are constantly hiring unqualified teachers and pay them a pittance but demand greatness just to keep viable - what do you expect. It's not just Paul but others as well...

+1 CMI comes to mind. They were 2.5 points away from scoring 2 stars.