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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel seen and heard. All the strategies I've suggested are being discussed. Highest among them would be at risk set aside for all schools until said school is 30% at risk. By name, they said biggest opportunity schools would be Brent, Lafayette, and Oyster Adams. [/quote]

Did they say how this would play out in terms of whether it's grade-by-grade or school overall? Grade-by-grade 30% targets seem fine, but filling the upper grades (where there is more space) exclusively with at-risk kids to try to get to 30% overall seems like it could be incredibly disruptive. Our school could literally go from 15% at risk to 45% at risk between two grade levels if they did it that way.[/quote]

this is actually the situation at Maury naturally due to charter enrollment- at risk concentrated in grades 3-5. It has not been working well b/c the school does not provide enough support. [/quote]

This is true at most Hill schools. But imagine how much worse it would be if they could only accept new OOB at risk students to those upper grades and there was pressure to keep filling them more to hit the overall school target? So now you’d have not only at risk kids, but all new kids would be at risk and the vast majority of those would be way behind grade level. It’s bad for school cohesiveness and bad for learning in the upper grades.

I have no problem with filling individual grades to 30% if space permits.  But the effect on academics has to be viewed on a grade by grade and not whole school basis. There’s a huge difference between 30% at risk and 70% at risk, and the latter would be closer to the mark by every Hill school’s 5th grade it this plan went into effect.[/quote]

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