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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's pretty easy to predict who is going to achieve an IB diploma, particularly in the first few years; it will a subset of last year's 10th-grade students who got a 4+ on PARCC (48% on ELA; 33% on Math). If you drill into the demographic subgroups, the vast number of students who were proficient or advanced were Asian or white.

I think this is why the DCI administration would not answer the question at the PCSB meeting about how many would achieve an IB diploma, and how many underserved students were in that group (he kept saying -- "I don't have the exact number right here and I don't want to speculate.' The Board member who asked the question was the same person who grilled Latin about why at-risk, disadvantaged and minority students were lagging.

DCI is going to be scrutinized by how well a wide cross-section of students do at achieving an IB diploma and/or scoring well on IB exams, and how well it delivers on its fundamental promise of IB for all. Not IB for gifted and talented, or high SES students. They have these students, with few new ones coming into the mix for 7 years. [/quote]

DCPS spends one of the highest dollar per student in the country and in 5 years they have barely gone up in their PARCC scores and almost 3/4ths of the students are below grade level.  You have got to be joking if you expect DCI to be awarding these kids IB diploma.  It’s like saying why isn’t everyone graduating with honors in DCPS.

The IB curriculum is offered to all and the kids not at the top will be getting the career certification or program degree.  It’s obvious from question above that the PCSB doesn’t understand the IB diploma either, especially since the senior class just started.

DCI should have the goal of showing improvement in competency in at risk kids in middle and high school which would be more than what DCPS is doing at these schools EOTP. 
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Perhaps. But that isn’t what DCI got a charter to do; they got a charter promising IB exams with passing grades for students headed to college and IB career diplomas and tech certifications for those who were not interested in attending a 4-year college. IB for all.

As for comparing DCI to DCPS (east or west of the park), charters are supposed to be about innovation to do better. If DCI becomes yet another school that delivers good results to high SES kids, and below DCPS results for everyone else, they will have badly failed.

Obviously the jury is still out and there is time. But the 10-year review isn’t that far off. [/quote]

Have you looked at PARCC scores at all for DCPS middle and high schools EOTP??  You can’t get any lower, seriously.  Single digits in some schools.  The only way is up.  Don’t be a hypocrite with double standards, DCPS middle and high school fails kids miserably.   Compare it to the progress DCPS has made and it’s not too hard to be better.  [/quote]

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