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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They could also change the FARMS bands. I think one year they had 5 and then they changed it to 3. There's a lot of ways to manipulate the numbers to get your desired result.[/quote]

Actually, I think that we all speculated that there were three because we thought it would go title one, focus schools, everyone else. When the freedom of information request finally went in, it turns out there were five and our speculation had been wrong all along.

I was also surprised to see how few schools were in the highest FARMS band. These are not mixed income schools, they are schools were almost every single kid qualifies for free and reduced meals. I think it alleviates some of the complaints about middle class families in high needs schools scooping up all of the spots.[/quote]

That's not exactly true. They revealed in the first year they used these bands but not in a lottery there were a certain number of bands. Then the next year they did a lottery and then they changed the number of bands to make more or less. I'm sure someone ran spreadsheets of the results a number of different ways and they used the one that achieved their desired mix of URMs and ever FARMS students.[/quote]

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