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[quote=Anonymous]I am not a statistician, but if this is really the way they rank schools - 
so that the better they get, the lower they rank,

that seems really really screwed up for parents just starting to look into schools - 
and presumably has other consequences in terms of the way the Charter Board treats the schools
here are the stats on Washington Latin, which from DCUM I understand has been getting better every year and harder and harder to get into - yet
when you pull up the 2014 "performance report" it comes along with a graph showing an absolute downward trend from 2011 (the earliest on the graph) to 2014, when the middle school finally fell to Tier 2

TIER SCORES for Washington Latin MS from the Charter Board performance report

2011    79.3%         1
2012     71.5%         1
2013     65.2%         1
[b]2014     59.4%     2[/b]

I am not a math person, but it seems to me that the Basis ranking will have to go in the same direction, and then you will eventually have all the top charter MS and HS in DC on a downward trend ending up in Tier 2 because they cannot improve very much anymore?  Is that correct?

In 2014 Washington Latin had the third highest DC CAS scores - Deal was #1, Basis #2
In 2013 Washington Latin was #2 (Deal #1, Basis #3)
I understand that DC CAS scores are not the be all and end all, but in MS you don't have APs or anything else....

Shouldn't the charter board change their emphasis on improvement to avoid this kind of absurd result for high performing schools?  
What am I missing?
Can we have the Hardy economist or someone else explain to me how this is fair to these schools in any way?[/quote]

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