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[quote=Anonymous][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.”

[b]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[/b]. [/quote]

nailed it![/quote]

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