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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's laughable that someone would think the magnet program should reflect the demographics of the county. If that's what mcps is after, then those programs should be removed indeed.[/quote]

Why is it laughable? I'm not laughing.[/quote]

Just look at test scores by demographics.  That is the answer[/quote]

http://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/Entity.aspx?K=15AAAA[/quote]

According to PARCC results, there were ~2400 Black and ~3450 Hispanic students in grade 3 in MCPS 2015 school year. Fewer than 10 students met "level 5: exceeded expectations" in both Math and reading in each group. 
There were ~1600 Asians, 389/185 met in math/reading. ~3500 White, 472/316 met in math/reading. These are the base for the 4th grade HGC. I will be a genius's task to achieve racial-balance in  HGC without hurting the quality of the program.[/quote]

There were 122 black 4th graders who scored 5 on last year's PARCC. DD was one of them. She is not in compacted math. None of the white students in her grade at her school who are in compacted math scored 5 on the PARCC math. Does that say something about the selection process? Does it say something about the quality of instruction in compacted math?
No one is saying to allow underachieving black and latino kids into accelerated programs. But there are high achieving black and latino students who are not being included.[/quote]

either you are not telling the truth, or MCPS had an error in the report card. According to the 2015 PARCC performance county summary, the count of 4th grade black students in level 5 math is fewer than 10. 
The number is consistent in all grades. [/quote]

This shows it's zero for level 5 in math for all ES/MS grades.  Perhaps PP is thinking level 4?

http://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/PARCC/Math/2015_PARCC_Performance_MA_15AAAA.pdf[/quote]
You have to add up the number of black kids at each level and then subtract that number from the total number of black kids. The result is the number who scored 5. The * does not mean zero, it means less than 5%.[/quote]

This is correct; when it's very low numbers they don't want to post them because it might be identifiable.[/quote]

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