Latin replication pulled from PCSB agenda

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Anonymous wrote:Those maps show they draw from all over the city. What are you trying to show?

All over the city but with significant concentrations in wealthy neighborhoods. Latin has enrolled very few students from the 2 poorest wards of the city for the last 3 years (~30 out of a 600 student school). Latin has said they recruit there but clearly what they are doing isn't working.

What they are doing isn’t ‘working’ because parents have CHOICE and FREE WILL! Is Latin supposed to beg specific parts of our city to attend? Don’t parents know best what school will best serve their child? Isn’t it possible those families simply don’t want Latin?

Yes, they are supposed to actively recruit students from diverse backgrounds, including students from different economic backgrounds. They have AGREED to do that in every charter agreement and renewal they have signed since they opened. Further, the WL Board has stated that was a goal in their 2017 5-year strategic plan.

What none of us know is what the economic and racial diversity of total applicant pool at Latin or any other school is, and whether year after year students of color and at-risk students just have crappy lottery luck.

MyschoolDC has the data though.

Does MSDC know the income of every student's families and what race or ethnicity they are? I am not so sure. They certainly wouldn't have it for any students just entering DC or the public school system.

Then how did they do that study on the at-risk preference?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those maps show they draw from all over the city. What are you trying to show?

All over the city but with significant concentrations in wealthy neighborhoods. Latin has enrolled very few students from the 2 poorest wards of the city for the last 3 years (~30 out of a 600 student school). Latin has said they recruit there but clearly what they are doing isn't working.

What they are doing isn’t ‘working’ because parents have CHOICE and FREE WILL! Is Latin supposed to beg specific parts of our city to attend? Don’t parents know best what school will best serve their child? Isn’t it possible those families simply don’t want Latin?

Yes, they are supposed to actively recruit students from diverse backgrounds, including students from different economic backgrounds. They have AGREED to do that in every charter agreement and renewal they have signed since they opened. Further, the WL Board has stated that was a goal in their 2017 5-year strategic plan.

What none of us know is what the economic and racial diversity of total applicant pool at Latin or any other school is, and whether year after year students of color and at-risk students just have crappy lottery luck.

MyschoolDC has the data though.

Does MSDC know the income of every student's families and what race or ethnicity they are? I am not so sure. They certainly wouldn't have it for any students just entering DC or the public school system.

They were able to do the at-risk preference study, so they have a bunch of data. Most kids entering (or turning down an offer from) Latin are not new to DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those maps show they draw from all over the city. What are you trying to show?

All over the city but with significant concentrations in wealthy neighborhoods. Latin has enrolled very few students from the 2 poorest wards of the city for the last 3 years (~30 out of a 600 student school). Latin has said they recruit there but clearly what they are doing isn't working.

What they are doing isn’t ‘working’ because parents have CHOICE and FREE WILL! Is Latin supposed to beg specific parts of our city to attend? Don’t parents know best what school will best serve their child? Isn’t it possible those families simply don’t want Latin?

If that is the reason, they should not be approved to opetate EOTR.

Is that where they are headed? I haven’t seen that or heard that. Personally I would think they should be approved to put a second campus where there are eligible kids. What wards have the most kids? There must be that data somewhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Those maps show they draw from all over the city. What are you trying to show?

All over the city but with significant concentrations in wealthy neighborhoods. Latin has enrolled very few students from the 2 poorest wards of the city for the last 3 years (~30 out of a 600 student school). Latin has said they recruit there but clearly what they are doing isn't working.

What they are doing isn’t ‘working’ because parents have CHOICE and FREE WILL! Is Latin supposed to beg specific parts of our city to attend? Don’t parents know best what school will best serve their child? Isn’t it possible those families simply don’t want Latin?

If that is the reason, they should not be approved to opetate EOTR.

Is that where they are headed? I haven’t seen that or heard that. Personally I would think they should be approved to put a second campus where there are eligible kids. What wards have the most kids? There must be that data somewhere.

Per this report from the DME (page 2-20) - it is a bar graph (no exact numbers on chart) but below is the distribution https://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/DC_MFP_Final_Chapter%202_Nov%2019.pdf

Ward 8 - In excess of 16L students
Ward 5 - Almost 16K
Ward 4 - Just over 14K
Ward 7 - About 12K
Ward 1 - Almost 10K
Ward 3 - Just under 7K
Ward 2 - 4K

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Ugh - Ward 8 has the most students with well over 16,000