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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn't Minifa expand the number of CO employees by 30% to help improve their focus on equity?[/quote]

And how did they do?[/quote]

They've done a lot to tweak the optics on closing the gap by creating more honors for all programs and reducing opportunities for advanced learners with all these lottery programs.[/quote]

How did the lottery reduce opportunity for advance learners?  It just made it so all advanced capable learners had a chance.  And they created ELC and expanded to all ES.[/quote]

Are you being deliberately obtuse? The kids with the highest scores are the most advanced learners. Their scores indicate the highest level of mastery. If you create a larger lottery pool including students with good, but less high scores, and a lower scoring student wins a lottery seat and a higher scoring student does not win a seat, you have reduced opportunity for the more advanced learner who would have gained admission through the prior paradigm. You can debate the merits of either paradigm based on your personal values and agenda, but the lottery absolutely gave students with less evidence of giftedness or mastery of advanced material more potential access to rigorous programming and reduced access for outlier students by widening the pool. [/quote]

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