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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

Thank you for posting the paper.  I think what is interested is that it found a clear benefit for very poor students of attending a school with 20% or less FARMS, but [b]found no difference for the very poor students between attending a school with 35% FARMS v. higher FARMs percentage[/b].  To the extent that boundary changes would push a school from the 19-20% FARMs level over the 35% FARMs level, this study suggests that the FARMs students already attending the school would suffer negative consequences from the FARMs rate going from "under 20%" to "35% or over."  The study summary doesn't talk much about the 20-35% FARMs range, which is common for many MCPS elementary schools.  The main categories described in the summary were under 20% and 35%+[/quote]

I don't think that's entirely accurate. The study binned the data, almost certainly for very valid statistical reasons, but as a result we can't really draw inferences for individual values in each bin.

If rezoning turned a low-poverty school and a high-poverty school into two moderate-poverty schools, would the low-income students previously in the low-poverty school be harmed more than the low-income students previously in the high-poverty school were helped? That's a question the study can't answer.[/quote]

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