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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And if we are doing something costly to help poor kids is this the thing that actually helps?  Versus improving schools.[/quote]

No, it's not! Bussing white kids to low performing, high-minority schools will NOT make them better.

If MCPS wants to improve lower performing, high-minority/FARMS schools, they need to:

[b]1) Prioritize hiring and retaining quality school leadership. [/b] If you look at many of the high schools in the bottom rung of MCPS, you'll find admin deficiencies. It's very hard for a school to thrive with ineffective or incompetent leadership

[b]2) Take a hard look at instructional quality. [/b] Lower performing schools tend to have a higher proportion of inexperienced teachers, since rookie teachers don't get as much of a voice in where they're placed compared to their veteran counterparts. These newbie teachers flounder and struggle. Some of them flame out and quit the profession, in fact. If MCPS had competent school leaders who were capable of evaluating and improving classroom instruction, you'd see improvements in the school. The problem is improving instructional quality is the job of the admin team, but as mentioned in the point above, many of these lower performing schools have incompetent or low-performing admin teams.

[b]3) More money for resources and programming. [/b] The higher performing schools in MCPS have an abundance of resources that ensure supplies and programming are available to their kids that is usually supplied by active and resourced PTAs. Lower performing MCPS schools tend to have smaller or inactive PTAs that can't fill those gaps. Taylor's school-based equity funding in the budget for next year is meant to close this gap. We'll have to see how it goes.[/quote]

Plus security.[/quote]

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