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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Low SES, but not Title 1 sounds overwhelming to me. Why would the district refuse federal funds for that school?[/quote]

This is the worst possible combo for kids.  The % of FARMS to qualify has gone up and so there are a number of schools that are Title 1 this year but won't be next year- which beyond financial resources also can mean losing Title 1 Resource teachers and professional development and programs. It stinks. Some schools were grandfathered in this year but won't be next year. [/quote]

I work in a MCPS focus school that has a CES. This is kind of where we are. The CES in our school is both a blessing and a curse. The standardized testing scores are not disaggregated so they are definitely helpful to us. But the CES is 100 seats out of 600 something. And because we have the CES, we don’t qualify for title 1 status so we don’t get the additional resources  for our home school kids who could absolutely use it. For instance, ESOL allocations for a title 1 school are calculated differently for title 1 schools (more allocation is given to them), but because we aren’t a title 1 school we don’t get that extra support even though we have a very high ESOL population. None of the CES students receive ESOL services. So if we only looked at our home school population we would qualify for the extra support but because the CES population “dilutes” the FARMS percentage we don’t qualify for extra support.  Same for intervention teachers. It’s a blessing and a curse. [/quote]

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