DC CAS scores to be released 7/31/14

[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)

Can anyone tell what is meant by "percent" here? Is it the average of the total score on the test? Is is the percentage of proficient students? Are they averaging reading and math scores? Pretty unclear writing -- but maybe that's part of the spin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
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?

We'll know more when the full numbers are released. My guess is some of those schools are not far below the Top 10 cutoff. Some will probably have "top 10" reading or math scores but not combined. There will be a lot of huffing and puffing about kids in the testing years and how this school or that school doesn't teach to the test like KIPP does.

But, yeah, if you live and die by the DC CAS, the DCUM darling schools don't do as well as KIPP and Prep.

[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)

Can anyone tell what is meant by "percent" here? Is it the average of the total score on the test? Is is the percentage of proficient students? Are they averaging reading and math scores? Pretty unclear writing -- but maybe that's part of the spin.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's the percent of kids scoring either Proficient or Advanced.

[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)

Can anyone tell what is meant by "percent" here? Is it the average of the total score on the test? Is is the percentage of proficient students? Are they averaging reading and math scores? Pretty unclear writing -- but maybe that's part of the spin.

I think it must mean % who scored above "below basic"?

[Anonymous]

Ugh, so annoying, just release the school-by-school data.

[Anonymous]

It's important to note that the scores are spun from 2007 because the DC-CAS was relatively new (second year I think) and the scores had dipped.

While Rhee joined DCPS in 2007, students had already taken the 2007 test.

This is spin from DCPS and OSSE. The scores across time should be judged from 2008, the first year of "Rhee-form."

In other words, reading scores have remain largely stagnant for most of DCPS and math scores went up. However, when you think about the money, time, drama and cheating that's gone into the whole endeavor, it's pretty depressing.

[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)

Glad to see one of these top ten schools advocate for all of the others in the Federal Court suit for equitable funding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's important to note that the scores are spun from 2007 because the DC-CAS was relatively new (second year I think) and the scores had dipped.

While Rhee joined DCPS in 2007, students had already taken the 2007 test.

This is spin from DCPS and OSSE. The scores across time should be judged from 2008, the first year of "Rhee-form."

In other words, reading scores have remain largely stagnant for most of DCPS and math scores went up. However, when you think about the money, time, drama and cheating that's gone into the whole endeavor, it's pretty depressing.

However you wish to slice it, the scores have gone up. We all would have liked to have seen greater gains, but the movement is upward. I honestly don't understand why some people on this board are so intent on finding the negative. That too is spin.

Signed,
A DC Parent of three whose kids are getting a good education and who hopes that the upward trajectory continues.

PS- What happened to all the people who don't care about the testing and the numbers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's important to note that the scores are spun from 2007 because the DC-CAS was relatively new (second year I think) and the scores had dipped.

While Rhee joined DCPS in 2007, students had already taken the 2007 test.

This is spin from DCPS and OSSE. The scores across time should be judged from 2008, the first year of "Rhee-form."

In other words, reading scores have remain largely stagnant for most of DCPS and math scores went up. However, when you think about the money, time, drama and cheating that's gone into the whole endeavor, it's pretty depressing.

However you wish to slice it, the scores have gone up. We all would have liked to have seen greater gains, but the movement is upward. I honestly don't understand why some people on this board are so intent on finding the negative. That too is spin.

Signed,
A DC Parent of three whose kids are getting a good education and who hopes that the upward trajectory continues.

PS- What happened to all the people who don't care about the testing and the numbers?

Don't you know? Test scores only matter if they validate what you already think about the school.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Mundo Verde's students haven't reached testing age yet.

[Anonymous]

Reading scores from black children went from 38.8 proficient in 2008 to 38.6 proficient in 2014.

Even with erase-to-the top that's shameful.

Kaya should be fired and Rhee indicted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's important to note that the scores are spun from 2007 because the DC-CAS was relatively new (second year I think) and the scores had dipped.

While Rhee joined DCPS in 2007, students had already taken the 2007 test.

This is spin from DCPS and OSSE. The scores across time should be judged from 2008, the first year of "Rhee-form."

In other words, reading scores have remain largely stagnant for most of DCPS and math scores went up. However, when you think about the money, time, drama and cheating that's gone into the whole endeavor, it's pretty depressing.

However you wish to slice it, the scores have gone up. We all would have liked to have seen greater gains, but the movement is upward. I honestly don't understand why some people on this board are so intent on finding the negative. That too is spin.

Signed,
A DC Parent of three whose kids are getting a good education and who hopes that the upward trajectory continues.

PS- What happened to all the people who don't care about the testing and the numbers?

The movement has been incrementally upward for many years, incl those preceding Rhee-form. There was one year since then when scores actually went down, but they later continued at their usual snails pace. No one knows, or seems to care.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Mundo Verde's students haven't reached testing age yet.

Thanks. What excuse do the other charters have? Especially LAMB and Stokes--they have been around for at least a decade. And LAMB was even illegally cherry-picking its waitlist--I guess that still didn't' help.

[Anonymous]

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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?

You of course are aware that some of these schools don't yet have the date to provide. CM is only in year two - so only had one year of scores to provide. IT will only have the their second year of scores this year.

Perhaps before you insult a school - you get someone educated on how testing and charters work.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Mundo Verde's students haven't reached testing age yet.

CM hasn't reached testing age yet either.