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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not PP you're responding to. The gap is as large as it is mainly because the curriculum is tough enough, and the academic demands high enough, to mostly attract UMC families in a city with a vast low-SES/minority-high SES/mostly white achievement gap.  The problem is hardly unique to Latin - you see it in Upper NW by-right schools and at BASIS. If Latin watered down its curriculum and demands, the at-risk population would surely rise.

If City ed leaders want to see more at-risk students in charters with broad appeal to UMC families they need to stop blaming schools and start convincing the Mayor and city council members to pay up for the support at-risk kids need to cope with the academics at the highest-performing charters.  It's rotten that charters don't get the same per student allocations DCPS does, and need to devote big chunks of the resources they do get to renovating buildings. Not supporting elementary school GT for the brightest low-SES kids like most other big US cities do doesn't help either.[/quote]

Don’t bring BASIS into this. Look at the black as well as at-risk subgroup performance and discipline data. Better than Latin on both by a significant amount. Neither have a high percentage of at-risk kids but BASIS doesn’t ‘water down’ its curriculum. [/quote]

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