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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does MCPS still have Focus schools?

It wasn't only based on FARMS but it used to be schools that had a certain percentage of FARMS qualified as Title I schools.  This was federal funds and did things like limit class sizes.

Then there was the next tier of FARMS percentages which qualified for Focus schools and this was locally funded. And did similar things such as limit class sizes, which may have been slightly bigger then classes at Title I schools.

I'm all for closing the gap and providing resources to help do so.

But while there are some benefits to balancing out schools, I don't think it really solves the problems and just dilutes the numbers.  So the poor performing students will still perform poorly but it's not as big of a percentage at the school if there is a mix of high performing students.[/quote]

Yes, focus schools/funding still exists and is helpful to support lower class sizes in the earliest grades, but 1) that's just for elementary schools, there should be something similar for middle and high schools, and 2) even that is more about providing extra local funding to middling-to--highish poverty schools (30-45% FARMS kids, I believe), which I agree is needed, but there are also schools with like 50-80% FARMS kids who don't get extra funding from MCPS (yes they do get extra from the state and feds, which I think is the argument for MCPS giving them less is county funds, but it still doesn't seem right to me given all the disadvantages and challenges a high-poverty school like that is dealing with.)[/quote]

It'd need to be more than just an adjustment for FARMS to result in the provision of reasonably equivalent services.  EML, too, for example.[/quote]

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