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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For hells sake people.  What we need to be asking for is a test-in Ward 6 Middle at EH. This way, the "well prepared" kids at LT and JO and SWS and Maury can all convene.  The brilliant kids languishing at Payne and Miner have an out too... And they exist!  Develop a program at Jefferson to support the kids that can't get in.  A fast-track for kids that can possibly get well-prepared and get into EH in 7th and a suped up program for the kids that can't manage.

Not rocket science, not racist, not discriminatory - everyone gets what they need.  [/quote]
If you made it a test-in school with truly high criteria, Stuart Hobson would be big enough. [/quote]
I don't need "truly high" criteria - I just want to know that more than half the students in my kids English class won't be illiterate! Not a [b]huge request [/b]here DCPS. [/quote]
But it is a huge request (and I am in favor of your request).

Three out of four kids are not proficient based on the DC CAS - and that test in and of itself is not a great measure of proficiency and the numbers are likely worse.  Wait until the PARC results come out and we have a better assessment of where DC kids actually stand.  Most indications are that all kids in every category will see their standing fall relative to the DC CAS.

It's a huge ask to create a majority proficient school because there is a ton of opposition to it.  DC politics will punish anyone involved in such an idea.  Well-intended education advocates will resist the idea, calling it re-segregation and racist, or at least not needed and counter-productive.  Cluster types will resist the creation of a competing school, or resist any messing with their beloved school and the status quo.  The Chancellor will resist because she's trying to make deliberate and thoughtful moves, and not go with the flavor of the month.  It just is a BFD to create a selective admission school in Ward 6 or most anywhere in DC.

When asked about the idea of a selective admmission school on the Hill, Catania said in an aside that DCPS needs to create the proposed selective admission school in Ward 7, and get it up and running before there's political space for more selective schools in other areas of the city.  That takes time.

Anyway, charters can move relatively quick and get a majority proficient school up and running quickly (see Latin, or BASIS which in three years has enrollment over 500).  DCPS, just because of the way it is, needs a longer time to make radical changes.  Don't expect a Ward Six selective admission school any time soon, it's just how it is.[/quote]

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