DC CAS scores to be released 7/31/14

[Anonymous]

Posters are negative because when the scores were released in 2013 to great fanfare, the Chancellor and Mayor did not reveal that the uptick was due to a manipulation in the cut scores for Proficiency. Guy Brandenburg,David Catania's staff and The Washington Post investigated the results and found out that parents had been duped. Last year, the cut scores for Proficiency were lowered, resulting in many more students being labeled as Proficient. People are now wondering what trick will be pulled out of their (Chancellor and Mayor) bottomless bag of tricks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there some supportable reason for DCPS to be using 2007 as the base year for this analysis? Because if you look at 2008-14, the picture is pretty different.

Rhee took over in 2007, but given what happened last year, it also may be to make scores look good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Posters are negative because when the scores were released in 2013 to great fanfare, the Chancellor and Mayor did not reveal that the uptick was due to a manipulation in the cut scores for Proficiency. Guy Brandenburg,David Catania's staff and The Washington Post investigated the results and found out that parents had been duped. Last year, the cut scores for Proficiency were lowered, resulting in many more students being labeled as Proficient. People are now wondering what trick will be pulled out of their (Chancellor and Mayor) bottomless bag of tricks.

And the Chancellor and Mayor don't do anything to mitigate suspicions by choosing NOT to release school-by-school data when they most certainly have it to give. And not even offering a deadline--"latter this summer" means nothing. We're 25 days away from school starting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Posters are negative because when the scores were released in 2013 to great fanfare, the Chancellor and Mayor did not reveal that the uptick was due to a manipulation in the cut scores for Proficiency. Guy Brandenburg,David Catania's staff and The Washington Post investigated the results and found out that parents had been duped. Last year, the cut scores for Proficiency were lowered, resulting in many more students being labeled as Proficient. People are now wondering what trick will be pulled out of their (Chancellor and Mayor) bottomless bag of tricks.

And the Chancellor and Mayor don't do anything to mitigate suspicions by choosing NOT to release school-by-school data when they most certainly have it to give. And not even offering a deadline--"latter this summer" means nothing. We're 25 days away from school starting.

I agree. I also do not understand the delay in releasing the data when obviously, they are available.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Slightly more info here (DCPS only):

http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/DC%20CAS%202014%20-%20DCPS%20Press%20Deck.pdf

Slide 4 probably has the most disconcerting data.

Yeah, seriously. DCPS is thanking the gods for Asian students.

All 15 of them....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The ten public charter schools whose students scored highest on DC CAS were (in order of overall proficiency):
1. St. Coletta Special Education PCS (87.9 percent)
2. DC Prep PCS – Edgewood Middle (86.3 percent)
3. KIPP DC – College Preparatory PCS (83.2 percent)
4. BASIS DC PCS (82.9 percent)
5. DC Prep PCS – Benning Middle (81.1 percent)
6. KIPP DC – KEY Academy PCS (80.0 percent)
7. Washington Latin PCS – Middle School (77.9 percent)
8. Thurgood Marshall Academy PCS (77.1 percent)
9. DC Prep PCS – Edgewood Elementary (75.4 percent)
10. Washington Yu Ying PCS (74.9 percent)

"Other" charter schools continue to trounce DCUM's HRCSs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Slightly more info here (DCPS only):

http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/DC%20CAS%202014%20-%20DCPS%20Press%20Deck.pdf

Slide 4 probably has the most disconcerting data.

Yeah, seriously. DCPS is thanking the gods for Asian students.

All 15 of them....

There are more than 15 at Thomson alone. Their scores for math & reading are off the charts and carries the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ten public charter schools whose students scored highest on DC CAS were (in order of overall proficiency):
1. St. Coletta Special Education PCS (87.9 percent)
2. DC Prep PCS – Edgewood Middle (86.3 percent)
3. KIPP DC – College Preparatory PCS (83.2 percent)
4. BASIS DC PCS (82.9 percent)
5. DC Prep PCS – Benning Middle (81.1 percent)
6. KIPP DC – KEY Academy PCS (80.0 percent)
7. Washington Latin PCS – Middle School (77.9 percent)
8. Thurgood Marshall Academy PCS (77.1 percent)
9. DC Prep PCS – Edgewood Elementary (75.4 percent)
10. Washington Yu Ying PCS (74.9 percent)

"Other" charter schools continue to trounce DCUM's HRCSs.

I think the more accurate read is that middle and high school scores are higher than elementary school scores. With the exception of St. Coletta, the top schools are all middle or high schools. Only 9 and 10 are elementary, and the majority of the so-called HRCS are elementary schools. Except for the two HRCS middle schools, which are on the list.

[Anonymous]

The quoting didn't work out quite right there.

I think the more accurate read is that middle and high school scores are higher than elementary school scores. With the exception of St. Coletta, the top schools are all middle or high schools. Only 9 and 10 are elementary, and the majority of the so-called HRCS are elementary schools. Except for the two HRCS middle schools, which are on the list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ten public charter schools whose students scored highest on DC CAS were (in order of overall proficiency):
1. St. Coletta Special Education PCS (87.9 percent)
2. DC Prep PCS – Edgewood Middle (86.3 percent)
3. KIPP DC – College Preparatory PCS (83.2 percent)
4. BASIS DC PCS (82.9 percent)
5. DC Prep PCS – Benning Middle (81.1 percent)
6. KIPP DC – KEY Academy PCS (80.0 percent)
7. Washington Latin PCS – Middle School (77.9 percent)
8. Thurgood Marshall Academy PCS (77.1 percent)
9. DC Prep PCS – Edgewood Elementary (75.4 percent)
10. Washington Yu Ying PCS (74.9 percent)

"Other" charter schools continue to trounce DCUM's HRCSs.

Latin, Basis and YY always get lots of DCUM love. And even DCUM acknowledges that KIPP and DC Prep do a great job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The quoting didn't work out quite right there.

I think the more accurate read is that middle and high school scores are higher than elementary school scores. With the exception of St. Coletta, the top schools are all middle or high schools. Only 9 and 10 are elementary, and the majority of the so-called HRCS are elementary schools. Except for the two HRCS middle schools, which are on the list.

More spin!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the charter school spin

http://www.dcpcsb.org/News-Room.aspx?ID=418

Where are the real numbers? Come on!

The headline calls DC a "state."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They don't have the school-by-school breakdowns. It's 100% spin right now.

DCPS really knows how to put lipstick on a pig.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ten public charter schools whose students scored highest on DC CAS were (in order of overall proficiency):
1. St. Coletta Special Education PCS (87.9 percent)
2. DC Prep PCS – Edgewood Middle (86.3 percent)
3. KIPP DC – College Preparatory PCS (83.2 percent)
4. BASIS DC PCS (82.9 percent)
5. DC Prep PCS – Benning Middle (81.1 percent)
6. KIPP DC – KEY Academy PCS (80.0 percent)
7. Washington Latin PCS – Middle School (77.9 percent)
8. Thurgood Marshall Academy PCS (77.1 percent)
9. DC Prep PCS – Edgewood Elementary (75.4 percent)
10. Washington Yu Ying PCS (74.9 percent)

"Other" charter schools continue to trounce DCUM's HRCSs.

Latin, Basis and YY always get lots of DCUM love. And even DCUM acknowledges that KIPP and DC Prep do a great job.

Other charter schools that get "lots of DCUM love" are: LAMB, Stokes, Mundo Verde, Inspired Teaching, Creative Minds, Two Rivers, E.L. Haynes and Cap City. Where are the high scores to back up the love?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I'm also interested in whether Tyler Elementary School and Amidon-Bowen Elementary School improved significantly.

According to http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/About+DCPS/Press+Releases+and+Announcements/Press+Releases/DCPS+Students+Continue+to+Demonstrate+Growth Amidon gained 10.4 percentage points in math proficiency. That still only means about a third of students are proficient in math, but it is a big improvement over 2011-12 when only 17% were proficient.

Given it's not on the list of 40 lowest-performing schools that gained on both math and reading, it seems reading scores went down or stayed the same. They were at 31% proficient last year.

A pity the reading initiatves didn't have their intended affect. Or that it only went up 5-6%.