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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wouldn’t want to be a teacher here.

Now you can be judged on how well your students are testing based on
[b]Poor blacks
Poor Hispanics
Poor non black or non Hispanic
Black
Hispanic
Non poor, non hispanic, non black 
[/b]
Lovely. As if.

The whole Jack Smith OpEd seems to be setting the table for One Big Experiment.  Never mind the other MCPS failed experiments (c2.0, test retakes, whole grading in HS, free meals, free Heathcare, free summer camp, free test prep, free counseling, free esol for years, no discipline or punish intent, etc. All of that didn’t help some kids test on grade level proficiency.

Can’t wait to see what’s next up Jack’s central office $2B budget sleeve. [/quote]

This sounds racist. Trumpeting out how each of these class segments are doing in each school. 
What is that supposed to accomplish?  It already was in the annual write-ups: Scores per school by black, hispanic, white, asian, and then Farms, esol, neither. 
They just regrouped it and renamed it? Prob cost a pretty penny to outsource that.

What does Smith mean when he says: "schools situated in communities across al SES levels have demonstrated success serving all students"

Is he talking about magnet schools placed in poorly performing schools?  Or which specific schools? Some way up county have an easier way to mix students, cover more acreage?

He goes on to say "educators are the most important factor in determining student outcomes."  What proves that?  And we all know it certainly isn't curriculum 2.0...I thought decades of research shows that parental involvement is the most important factor.

He concludes by saying that "equity requires equal access and opportunity."  So there is not access and opportunity of the effective "educators"? 
The MoCo public schools already provide access to the same curriculum, trained teachers, and classes and opportunity (not at magnets, specialty schools access and opportunity whatsoever. there are more aides and esol aides in Title 1 as well).  [/quote]

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