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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They absolutely said during the worksession they couldn't predict this happening, which is BS. They also said there is nothing they can do to get those schools back on the list. And they said the current approach is what the principals agreed on.[/quote]

What are the new schools in the list? Do any of the decision makers at MCPS have ties to schools that benefited from the shift?  Just curious.
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I don't know but I have roughly transcribed Pugh's initial comments about the Title I issue during the 2/22 BOE session:

"Title I is not guaranteed, it moves from year to year. We do it based on the poverty indicators. The federal requirements are that we rank schools based on the poverty indicators which for us are CEP and FARMS and that’s new. So this year when we were (and normally there’s changes every single year and it’s always a painful thing…), but this year we couldn’t predict what happened, actually. More schools where schools were directly certified, they didn’t have to fill out the form, but because we had knowledge of more students that were eligible to receive this, it changed the rankings of the schools quite drastically.”

Honestly, this is not coherent. It is not "new" that Title I is based on poverty indicators. CEP is not a poverty indicator. The fact that MCPS had knowledge of more students eligible to receive FARMS is not what changed the rankings of the schools. It is MCPS Central Office's choice to directly communicate to CEP families that they didn't need to fill out income eligibility forms for FARMS.
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