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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]If someone has time to dig into them, there's good data in these fact sheets, although they are from 2015-16 and 2016-17.

https://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dm...20Fact%20%20Sheet_10.06.17.pdf 
https://dme.dc.gov/node/1198445

Also, at risk of academic failure is a designation DC has only begun using in the last 2 years, so any comparison going further back isn't valid. Before that it was economically disadvantaged; before that FARMS, which only captures income.

[b]At-risk is a narrower definition and fewer students meet this criterion (very poor, homeless, in foster care or at least one year behind the expected grade for your age) that meet the economically disadvantaged criterion.[/b][/quote]

What was the impetus for shifting from the FARMs designation to the narrower "at risk" category?    [/quote]

During the Obama Administration, the USDA began allowing a state to adopt community eligibility standards for free lunches, where at any schools with 60% or more students qualifying for FARMS would be offered free lunch. It made the FARMS category useless as a way to capture poverty in a school or school district since the percentage of eligible children in a community eligible school would be 100%.

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