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[quote=Anonymous]I think this consultant engagement is a waste of school payer funds. Its a fools errand to try to construct some brittle unworkable plan to sprinkle wealthy white and asian kids around URM students.

MoCo always seems to be five steps behind. Its too late to look at racial modeling school assignments as the path toward shrinking achievement gap. Too many legal hurdles and the reality is that the number of wealthy whites sending kids to MCPS has been steadily dropping for the past decade while the number of poor minorities has been steadily growing. The performance in the vaulted W schools and Blair magnet is predominantly Asian students not white students. White students aren't failing but they aren't doing as well as people think. Alas MCPS seems intent on driving Asians out. They are only 20% of the school population but represent a shockingly high % of the highest scoring students. Lose them and the Ws tank and Blair stops winning awards.

It would make more sense for MCPS to engage a consultant on how to raise the performance of hispanic students -the fastest growing and lowest performing group. It would make sense for MCPS to figure out how to retain the Asian students and meet their higher performance needs.

From a capacity planning standpoint, it would make sense for MCPS to outsource planning projections or have someone external explain to them why their internal planning department keeps getting enrollment forecasting so wrong.

Hiring a consultant to think up some way to side step laws prohibiting race as a school assignment factor because MCPS wants to use race as a school assignment factor is just stupid. [/quote]

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