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If you want to reduce the achievement gap the only way to do it is with more resources. More teachers, more after school programs, more wrap around services, more intervention services. There is no magic cheap way to solve the achievement gap but just moving kids around. Just like moving the deck chairs around on a sinking ship isn't going to keep the ship from sinking. [/quote]

I agree extra resourses may lift the bottom but MCPS already offers smaller classes, free tutoring, free meals, free summer schools, free childcare, and  free service for parents in schools with high FARM students.  I think adding accountability, center offices, school admin, teachers, students and parents, will produce  better results.
Each student’s progress should be measured, not the gap.  If a child entering 5th grade but  only reads and does math at 2nd grade level, it is not to ask the teacher to bring the kid up to grade level within one year. 
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The only true things on that list are smaller class sizes and free breakfast/lunch.

I've had kids in both Focus and Title I schools and there was no free tutoring, no free summer school for all kids, definitely no free childcare, and parenting classes only in the Title I school and only in Spanish.

Now, there were summer classes for kids who were either struggling or identified as gifted, but those were not available to the entire student body. [/quote]

Actually, the PP is correct as far as my kids' school.

They do offer free tutoring at the low income apartments for the kids who need it.  There is a free summer school program.  And, yes, there are free parenting classes.  Plus, of course, the free backpacks/free breakfast/free lunch.

How long ago were your kids in MCPS, PP?[/quote]

They are in MCPS now, one in middle school, two in elementary. I'll cede, though, that the kid in a Title 1 school is in a magnet and therefore I might be unaware of some of the offerings. [/quote]

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