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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You've got to look deeper. DC Charter AA students on average score 24% in ELA, DCPS 15%. Math is 23% for charter vs 12.9% in DCPS. 
Charters clearly do better educating our AA kids. 
None of the schools you mention (ITS, CMI, MV) have a large enough population to even report white student performance. ITS had 132 test takers in 3rd-7th grade, ITS has hardly any Asian or Hispanic students. Thus, at least 93 out of the test takers at ITS were AA (70%). The fact that more than 2/3 the school is black and they scored 32% in Math when the statewide average (charter and DCPS) for AA students is only 19.3% should tell you more of the story. MV had 128 test takers that means, ditto.

Yes, when you look at raw numbers, I could see how an uneducated would surmise that these “HRCS” are poor. Look a little deeper and you may find what you’re looking for. Call it excuse or call it facts. That’s up to you. 
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Don't forget, a school like MV aimed to get a lot of spanish speaking families in the first year.  May of the testable grades are ELL.  CMI reached out in the first two years to many families that were SN because of the fact that it was an inclusion school.  Many of the testable grades have a high precentage of SN children.  Sure - you could look at the scores and make a gloss over statment, but also isn't this only the third testing year for both of these schools in general as well?

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