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[quote=Anonymous]No if you want disadvantaged students to perform better shuffling the chairs on the deck won’t make any difference. What would make a difference would be paying students and their families.

Attendance is one of the biggest problems with FARMs kids. Pay their families a monthly or weekly stipend when they meet attendance goals.
Hire after school tutors that provide supervised afterschool care and homework help.

Invest in creating a better community college system. MC is horrible. Integrate dual enrollment into all the high schools. Focus vocational and associate degree attainment while in high school into the high farms area. Give monetary awards for FARMs  students completing these degrees. People hear vocational AA or certificates and think it’s mean being a plumber. It includes medical technicians, paralegals, and lots of other professions. Offer scholarships into UMD good for up to a five year delayed start. Let the kids be able to work for several years if they need money.

Hiring more central office staff, shuffling rich people around or anything other than meeting poor kids where they are and giving them the ability to succeed in a path they want to follow with real incentives won’t work.

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