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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The at-risk preference is going to ruin Latin.

BASIS it is. [/quote]

I think it will essentially ruin Latin for ambitious families that can't afford to supplement a lot outside school.  The rest will up their game with more tutors, academic summer camps, parents teaching kids this and that at home etc.  The at-risk preference is one of those road to hell paved with good intentions ideas.  Test-in GT from elementary school would work a lot better for the city, the parents and the students concerned.[/quote]

I think you might be underestimating Latin. They are trying to get back to the at-risk percentage where they started, except for now they are a fully-fledged program. My wife is an educator and we are consistently blown away by the caliber of teaching at Latin and how year after year they draw out new skills in our kids. They can handle it. [/quote]

In all fairness, the poor performance of the small number of current at-risk kids is why the PCSB was reluctant to approve Latin’s expansion.  I hope this works well for them, but what have they done to prove they can educate an even higher number of at -risk kids?[/quote]

Can you link to this?  I don’t think you are correct on this. I believe it has more to do with the declining numbers of at-risk students and what was seen as disproportionate discipline. All of this stuff is public, though, so please cite your source. [/quote]

Here is the transcript
https://www.livebinders.com/media/get/MTkyNjcyMzk=
The board mentions concern about low enrollment, low test scores and high suspension rates for at-risk students.
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So, one board member was concerned about the gap in PARCC scores but admits Latin still does far better with at-risk students than much of the other schools in the city.  Head of School then quantifies that saying that

8                 VICE CHAIR BIREDA:  I think just to
 9     continue the conversation around serving our most
10     needy kids, I just was quickly looking at your
11     PARCC scores last year, and while of course, you
12     far exceed where most of the city is, there is a
13     quite large gap for your at-risk performance
14     versus -- I mean, your highest-performing group,
15     which is white students.
16                 MR. ANDERSON:  Right.
17                 VICE CHAIR BIREDA:  So it gives me
18     pause when I think about the idea that you go to
19     a place where you'll be serving more of those
20     students.  Can you talk to me about how you --
21     what your plan is to increase performance of at-
22     risk students and to close that gap?

MR. ANDERSON:  Absolutely.  So if you
went back a couple years and looked at our at-
risk students, you would notice that our
proficiency rate in ELA was 39 percent at a time
when the proficiency rate for at-risk student in
the city was 13 percent.
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