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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Council is currently debating the Walls admissions process, including the draft 15% proposal.

source - Perry Stein (Wash Post) on twitter says Councilmembers seem to want to ensure there's a 2ay in the future to ensure students across all income levels have access to selective high schools.

https://twitter.com/PerryStein/status/1097904134873849858[/quote]

They are following what NYC is doing it's the latest progressive thing to do[/quote]

I actually think it is the way SWW has operated for years -- having flexibility to allow students with GPA but lower entrance exam scores in based on their interview results (can't confirm it, but suspect).

[b]Adding a 4 or 5 PARCC score as a requirement makes that practice impossible. [/b]

I would imagine the Council isn't just reacting to the situation at SWW. Banneker, McKinley, SWW all now require a 7th-grade PARCC score of 4 or 5 for admission. [b]That eliminates a lot of DC students from consideration.[/quote][/b]

Yup

For Black Males its just

20.7% with a 4+ ELA  17.7% Math

For At-Risk its just

21.1% and 15%[/quote]

I'm not sure what you think those numbers show? The bolded is obviously incorrect. While that percentage may sound low, when you compare it to raw numbers, you will see that that is a lot of students compared to the enrollment space at SWW. In fact in raw numbers, you could fill the entire 9th grade selecting only from those 20% of at risk kids and still not all of them would get a spot. Thousands of kids qualified to take the test for 150 seats.

In 17-18 there were ~2400 DCPS 7th graders taking PARCC. DCPS stats show 77% of the total population is Econ. Disad. Rough analysis, if as you say ~20% of Econ. Disad. students scored high enough, that would be ~370 Econ. Disad. students in the pool for 150 total spots in the 9th grade class at SWW.

It seems to me that if the Council wants to reserve spots for at risk kids at Walls, they can do so and fill it entirely from kids already qualified to attend. They don't need to change the admission standard. Presently, 12% of the school is Econ. Disad.; they want to change that to 15%, so you folks are arguing over four 9th grade seats.[/quote]

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