CES letters?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just looked at my USPS Informed Delivery email this morning, and there's a tear-the-edges letter to The Parents/Guardians of Larla Larlason, so I assume that will be it.

I don't see it in Parentvue-- I'd assume it would pop up on login or be in Documents?-- so PP who said they'd send it by mail and it wouldn't end up in Parentvue for another few weeks or w/e may be right.

In the past, the notifications seemed to come at the end of the week and did not appear in Parentvue right away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just looked at my USPS Informed Delivery email this morning, and there's a tear-the-edges letter to The Parents/Guardians of Larla Larlason, so I assume that will be it.

I don't see it in Parentvue-- I'd assume it would pop up on login or be in Documents?-- so PP who said they'd send it by mail and it wouldn't end up in Parentvue for another few weeks or w/e may be right.

In the past, the notifications seemed to come at the end of the week and did not appear in Parentvue right away.

Although it was years ago, I remember these showing up on a Saturday.

[Anonymous]

The letter coming today is from DCCAPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where do you get enrichment if my kid is not selected for CES?

At your home school. If your school has the ELC curriculum, your kid will get an ELA curriculum that is pretty close to the CES curriculum. If not, it's up to the school and the teachers to provide enrichment via benchmark advanced (which I personally think is lousy). Math is a different story - CES doesn't offer Math enrichment opportunities that are different from those at other elementary schools. Your kid should have the opportunity to take compacted math starting in 4th grade.

This is simply not true at some schools or at least one school. They do have a separate enriched math for the CES students. It may not be formally part of the CES curriculum but it is a different separate class (no non CES kids) where the teacher has more freedom.

[Anonymous]

They are in the mail today. Just got ours. He got in. (For reference, 227 MAP)

[Anonymous]

231 MAP. In lottery, not selected. Which is fine, as she is in a language immersion program anyway and likely would have opted to stay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are in the mail today. Just got ours. He got in. (For reference, 227 MAP)

Congratulations!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where do you get enrichment if my kid is not selected for CES?

At your home school. If your school has the ELC curriculum, your kid will get an ELA curriculum that is pretty close to the CES curriculum. If not, it's up to the school and the teachers to provide enrichment via benchmark advanced (which I personally think is lousy). Math is a different story - CES doesn't offer Math enrichment opportunities that are different from those at other elementary schools. Your kid should have the opportunity to take compacted math starting in 4th grade.

This is simply not true at some schools or at least one school. They do have a separate enriched math for the CES students. It may not be formally part of the CES curriculum but it is a different separate class (no non CES kids) where the teacher has more freedom.

At the regional center my children attended compacted math was completely unrelated to CES. Students were mixed in with those from the home school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are in the mail today. Just got ours. He got in. (For reference, 227 MAP)

Congratulations!!

Thanks! Lots of factors will come into play regarding whether we will ultimately send him. But I feel grateful and lucky to have the option.

[Anonymous]

99th percentile MAP-R. White girl in high income ES. Rejected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:99th percentile MAP-R. White girl in high income ES. Rejected.

"Rejected" as in didn't get a spot in the lottery, or didn't qualify for the pool to begin with?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:99th percentile MAP-R. White girl in high income ES. Rejected.

"Rejected" as in didn't get a spot in the lottery, or didn't qualify for the pool to begin with?

did not get a spot in the lottery. In the waiting pool.

[Anonymous]

Can anyone point me to the actual measures being used? I have a friend who got their letter that their kid didn't even make the lottery, but based on reading level, grades and MAP definitely should have. We keep talking about 75th %ile but now I cant find where that is.

I know what the general measures are because I got our letter, but I'm trying to find specifics. This process is SO opaque.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone point me to the actual measures being used? I have a friend who got their letter that their kid didn't even make the lottery, but based on reading level, grades and MAP definitely should have. We keep talking about 75th %ile but now I cant find where that is.

I know what the general measures are because I got our letter, but I'm trying to find specifics. This process is SO opaque.

If that's true, they can appeal.

[Anonymous]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PGURwFaYuZpsVrxW0RbYYWlv49ZdrS960uNobJw3teA/preview#

What data was used to review Grade 3 students for needing enriched services in Grade 4?
Multiple measures including Grade 3 marking period 2 report cards, locally-normed percentile ranks for the winter 2022 Measures of Adequate Progress in Reading (MAP-R), instructional reading level and student services including: special education services, ESOL- English for Speakers of Other Languages, Section 504 accommodations plan and Free and Reduced-priced Meals. Students who meet the following academic criteria will receive enriched literacy services in Grade 4:
Grade 3 Marking Period 2 Reading ‘A’ and
Grade 3 Marking Period 2 Writing or Social Studies ‘A’
Reading level ‘On’ or ‘Above’
85th Percentile Local Norm on MAP- R
The enriched literacy services may be delivered at your student’s current school or in a regional CES program. Students who meet the academic criteria will be placed into a lottery pool for potential placement in a CES program. Placement in the regional CES program is by lottery only.