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[quote=Anonymous]The Post wrote about the city's plan to remove PARCC scores, disregard middle school attendance records and lower minimum GPAs to apply to city application high schools. Surprised they didn't interview, or quote parents who are afraid of "watering down" the experience. Two excerpts that leapt off the page to me.

Re PARCC:

"...The chancellor’s announcement comes just a year after the District mandated that students wanting to attend most of the city’s application high schools had to pass a national standardized test administered to D.C. middle-schoolers.

But the implications of that requirement swiftly became evident. So few D.C. students, especially teenagers from low-income families, passed the test that city leaders acknowledged the requirement was largely ignored at most application high schools.

In Wards 7 and 8 — the poorest swath of the city — only 45 students attending neighborhood middle schools passed both the English and math portions of the standardized exam, according to city data. At one middle school, three students passed. At another, four did. ..."

Re SWW demographic shifts:

"Since the 2014-2015 academic year, the 600-student campus has enrolled an average of 16 additional white students each year and enrolled 16 fewer black students, according to city data. [b]That has resulted in a 37 percent increase of white students during that time, and a 35 percent decrease in black students.[/b]

The school system said that since 2015, the number of students applying from Ward 3, the wealthiest corner of the city, has jumped nearly 50 percent. And applications from Ward 6, another area with wealthy families, have increased by 20 percent."[/quote]

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