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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are a MV family of 5+ years, and I would advise families - if they have a choice - to go elsewhere.
I feel like we've been duped. 
They constantly tout their waitlist numbers - as that is, by far, their most impressive data point.
An Academic Review Committee, comprised of parents, who are also education professionals, was formed this year, and the data that they found was mind-blowing.
As in, mind-blowingly bad.
Long story short, of the five language immersion elementary charters that feed into DCI, MV students are the lowest scoring and lowest performing.
We hope that, with the formation of the new Union, things might improve, but it will take time.
The grading system changes from year to year, so there is no comparing apples to apples longitudinally. As pathetic as it sounds, I've given up on trying to figure out how my child is performing against the Common Core standards.
It is not uncommon - at all - for teachers to leave midyear (this has happened twice for my child) - yet the school does an incredibly poor job of conveying what is happening, what has happened, and what the plan is moving forward.
And regarding the principal, she told me herself that she was leaving because of organizational culture issues.
She, herself, was a teacher at MV, prior to being appointed principal, and I'm sure walked a difficult line in understanding teachers' needs and frustrations, yet not being able to adequately serve them as a school leader. Many families feel that she was always set up for failure.
Fortunately, we have just one more year...[/quote]

What data are we talking about? 5th PARCC scores? Or did the committee have access to different data that's comparable across schools that have different curricula, different language, etc.? I'm a MV parent and want to understand what data was mind-blowingly bad that hasn't been shared with the whole school community.[/quote]

MV parent here re Academic Review Committee. I think they looked at all the data the school had provided and dis-aggregated it. It was a parent who works in educational statistics who presented it to the Mundo board at an open board meeting in May. They said they wanted to begin a conversation with the board and admin about where to go next, so maybe that's why no one in Padres sent it to the full school community?

Academic Review is part of the Mundo Padres (parent org), so you should be able to email their leadership and get the raw data and the committee's analysis. Padres hasn't communicated anything about where the work of the committee is right now, and I'm not a teacher or ed professional, so I'm not on the committee.[/quote]

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