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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometime up upgraded mentioned DCI appealing to change their charter regarding IB goals. Is that true and where could I read about that?[/quote]

Typo. I meant upthread, not upgraded.[/quote]

It was me. I can’t remember where I read the information - I think it was posted by the DCPCSB since they always post their agendas on social media. This is the only information I could find via Google search. Of course, DCI tried to frame the request in a positive way, but really they were just requesting to change their goals for the performance framework.

https://dcregs.dc.gov/Common/DCR/Issues/IssueCategoryList.aspx?DownloadFile=%7B374EED74-93B2-4590-97F0-8878EDF13919%7D[/quote]

Okay, I found it. Here is the transcript - the DCI stuff starts on page 133. You can clearly see how they asked to lower the standards for their goals.

https://www.livebinders.com/media/get/MjA0ODI4NTQ=[/quote]

Wow, so the justification they give is that kids come into the feeder schools late and come directly into DCI through the lottery, so they enter without enough language. Except that the feeders are much more competitive now and in the next few years 99% of kids, maybe Chinese excepted, will have been in a feeder since ECE. And the original goal said students who have studied a language for at least 5 years by 11th grade - even if they did one or two years at a feeder, they'd more than meet that. It sounds like they were overly ambitious for how seriously they thought students and families take immersion in DC. I don't understand how you can teach high school level courses in a foreign language when only 50% of kids have intermediate (4/5 out of a scale of 1-9) proficiency, but I guess they either allow a lot of English or water down the standards.

https://avantassessment.com/stamp4s/benchmark-rubric-guide[/quote]

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