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[quote=Anonymous]Here is the bottom line.  Charters cannot track in all subjects in DC.  It is what it is.

So to compensate for above, you look at peer group aggregations.  Stakes are much higher in middle than elementary school with learning academic content, critical thinking skills and analysis, and the achievement gap is much, much greater than elementary.

The charters mentioned here that are sought after EOTP: Basis, DCI, Latin have enough of a cohort of grade level kids to be able to actually teach grade level content material. In addition, they also have a good enough cohort of above grade level kids to offer advance classes in math which DC allows due to PARCC.

I agree that there should be more charters like above since DCPS refuses to track and actually are taking away what little tracking there is with their race to the bottom.  But reality is there are not enough charters with the increasing number of kids coming up in the pipeline who can work at or above grade level.

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