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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GS has started giving more weight to equity. So, a school like Oakland Terrace where the white non FARMS kids do well, but Latino kids and kids receiving FARMS do only a little better than the state average is going to result in a ding to the score. [/quote] I truly do not understand why this is a metric that would take a score down.[/quote] It's like this: if the white kids in your school perform higher than most white kids in the state, and the Latino kids in your school perform lower than most Latino kids in the state (maybe because they are more likely to be recent immigrants) then you have a large performance gap and thus a poor equity score. The score would be much better if there were fewer Latinos, even if the white kids performed much worse than they do now. This is why the score system is screwed up. It punishes schools for the composition of their student body, in particular ESOL and immigrant students.[/quote]
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