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[quote=Anonymous]Although I have not yet seen the breakdown, I'm pretty sure that the achievement gap is very wide with the AA students being the lowest.  Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions on how we as a community can get this gap closed?  My daughter is currently at a charter school, and those schools are the ones that baffle me the most.  I'm thinking that parents are making a conscious decision to move their student (I'm talking mostly AA) from their neighborhood school for whatever reason, and place them in what they consider to be a "good" school, or at least better than their inboundary school, so why then do they think that is enough?  Is there no support at home, do the parents just "not care", and do the students also not care?  I've thought about asking the principal at my daughters school if I could call a meeting for the parents and students that are below proficient on the DCCAS and find out what are some of the problems and maybe work on solutions.  Something needs to be done, I just don't know what exactly.  BTW, I am an AA parent.[/quote]

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