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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't disagree that DCPS has problems—major ones—but I don't understand what the charters are really improving on except for allowing families that are engaged in their kids' education to congregate together instead of languishing in smaller cohorts at their neighborhood schools.  I'd axe them and fund a magnet GT program.[/quote]

You must be new to the DC school scene.

OSSE won’t allow magnet GT because of “equity”. Therefore kids 4 and 5 grade levels apart are grouped together.  The achievement gap becomes very obvious once you are past K.   What DCPS also does is instead of supporting the bottom and keeping high standards, they lower standards and teach to the bottom.

What some charters are able to do since they have a large enough cohort of higher performing kids and not under the control of OSSE is to be able to teach grade level content and above grade level content.  Some charters also have tracking official and unofficial so group like ability level kids together in classes.  This is especially important as the achievement gap widens even more middle school and up.

You can’t do that when the overwhelming majority of kids are not just below grade level but way below grade level.  The teaching and resources are then concentrated at those levels. [/quote]

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