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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A quick look at Ross makes me curious to find out more.

The entire school has 157 kids

In 2012 32% of the students were FARMS eligible.   27% of those tested were below grade level in math. 35% were below grade level in reading

In 2013 there were 31% of students FARM eligible.  21% below grade level in math. 18% in reading.

The conclusion is that some FARMS students are doing as well as non-FARMS students but not all.

But the progress is good. There is something to be celebrated here.

Perhaps tiny schools with 2/3 middle/upper class students is the secret[/quote]

That's pretty much exactly what I said above:  "If 30-40% of all DCPS students were low-SES and below proficiency, busing would be a workable solution."

Now, if you had a school system where 30% of the kids were FARM eligible, but they were all concentrated in a few schools EOTR, then busing would be a solution. You'd be breaking up 100% FARM schools with the goal of redistributing that poverty around the city so that eventually all schools would be 70/30 non-FARM/FARM. (IOW, like Ross.)

But that's not the situation we're dealing with. In DC, we have a school system where 70-80% of all school kids are FARM eligible. By redistributing that poverty across the school system, all you do is ensure every single school is non-functional.

The only real solutions are a) radically increase welfare spending to bring most of DC's school-age kids out of poverty; or b) wait for gentrification to drive the number of poor school-aged kids below 40-50% [/quote]

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