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[quote=Anonymous]“The people screaming about Great Schools are the ones in schools in a larger population of low income kids. They don't like that their scores dropped.” Wrong. Those in high FARMS schools may not like Great Schools but it was already well known that their score effectively was just an SES short hand as a proxy for how many poor kids are at the school since on average those kids tell worse than UC/MC kids. The screaming in the last year or so has been from MC/UMC schools that have a non-negligible but still minority of FARMA kids and so overall tend to have good scores for most kids. But the new formula for GS basically penalized schools simply for having a mix of kids testing well and poorly in the same school by taking points off for any in-school testing differences rather than looking at how well a school educated demographics compared to the state average for that specific demographic. This made a lot of middle class schools scores tank. [/quote]
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