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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Will it say honors on the transcript?[/quote]

Who cares what is on the transcript? What matters is what kind of education is happening in the classroom.[/quote]

And an education geared to the weakest students sucks for the rest.

Which is what Wilson has decided to do.[/quote]

Cynical, I know, but is it possible Wilson is doing this in hopes that some of the higher SES families will go private, thus helping solve the overcrowding problem without having to take measures like adjusting boundaries?[/quote]

Well, not many of us have a spare $90K/year laying around so that won't work very well.[/quote]

Actually, it may start going the other way, with more parents shifting to Walls and Wilson rather than opting for private.  As that happens, more OOB students will be pushed out of Deal, Hardy and Wilson.  The 'localization' of our schools overall will benefit these schools, attracting more community involvement and resulting in enhanced academic performance, but we shouldn't kid ourselves that there will be forceful political pushback as this happens.[/quote]

So basically it's not that these schools are any better than others it's just the kids, kind of what we've known all along really! Hence why many of the special population students (group classification from PARCC) do so poorly even at these so called "great" schools![/quote]

There are some schools that DCUM would never consider that are over-performing -- they all have large numbers of at-risk students who are performing at least 10 points better on PARCC than other schools with similar demographics populations. But yes, at most DC schools "it's just the kids." http://www.empowerk12.org/2017-dc-bold-performance-schools.html

DC Prep Benning ES (Ward 7), 
DC Prep Edgewood ES (Ward 5), 
DC Prep Edgewood MS (Ward 5), 
Early Childhood Academy (Ward 8), 
Friendship Chamberlain ES (Ward 6), 
Garfield ES (Ward 8), 
Ketcham ES (Ward 8), 
KIPP Heights ES (Ward 8), 
KIPP LEAD ES (Ward 6), 
KIPP Promise ES (Ward 7), 
KIPP Spring ES (Ward 5), 
Ludlow-Taylor ES (Ward 6), 
Seaton ES (Ward 6), and 
Thomson ES (Ward 2).

Honorable mention goes to seven additional schools who nearly made the Bold Performance cut, including 
Barnard ES (Ward 4), 
Center City Shaw (Ward 6), 
DC Prep Benning MS (Ward 7), 
EL Haynes ES (Ward 4), 
Friendship Blow-Pierce ES (Ward 7), 
Ingenuity Prep (Ward 8), 
KIPP KEY MS (Ward 7), and 
KIPP Quest ES (Ward 7)[/quote]

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