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[quote=Anonymous]The UMD study is comparing across schools districts again. Listen someone WITHOUT and agenda and who knows how to interpret data needs to dig into the MCPS PARCC and MAP scores and see what is going on in schools where the poverty rate is 20%, 30%, 40% or 50%. MCPS's own data does not show that low income kids reach proficiency at higher rates when they attend schools with less poverty. Why is this?

I also think its about time that MCPS and the county started to collect the real poverty stats. FARMS is a woefully undercounted number. People who want to boost an area or spin will report the FARNS number rather than the had ever been on FARMS number but the larger number is much closer to the challenging economic reality for those families. In schools with many wrap around services, there is a higher compliance with registering for FARMS. In schools that have mixed high and low SES there is much lower self reporting for needing FARMS. Even if everyone with a low enough income for FARMS was counted, it would still not really capture the true state of poverty. The county does do planning with groupings such as economically unstable or at risk. These are the working low income residents that experience many of the same problems that people making $500 less experience. These are the people who are one paycheck away from qualifying for services.

Right now MCPS is what 40% ever been on FARMS? This number is probably closer to 50%-60% if you broaden the definition to economically at risk or unstable. With numbers this high, the ship on bussing poor kids into wealthy area and wealthy kids into poor areas has basically sailed off. MCPS is 20 years too late on this idea.

The sooner MCPS accepts that IT IS a HIGH POVERTY SCHOOL DISTRICT then the sooner someone get to work on how to focus on educating poor kids. [/quote]

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