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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If DC considers them the same students, then why is there so much fucking belly aching from elected officials about how almost 50% of DC kids are NOT in the DCPS and in fact in charter schools?  We are reaching some tipping point that anti charter schools folks keep crying about.  So while charters are publicly funded, DC makes  very very clear distinction between DCPS and Charter schools. Different websites, different sties for information, different everything  . Unless this study is very clear, I would not assume that it includes charter kids.   Again, its sloppy research. [/quote]

Individual schools have different websites, but the data is collected in the same place by the Deputy Mayor for education.

Besides this study is a national study, so please consider that the people who conducted it know more about public schools than you do.

If there is one thing you should know living in DC about studies done by "advocacy groups" it is that they will do things like deliberately not include charter school students to make their point and bury that information deep in a footnote or reveal  it only in direct response to a question by a reporter concerning an article that said reporter already intends to publish critiquing the methodology of the study (or the lack of transparency about the methodology).

Don't ever assume that while "the people who conducted the study know more about public schools than you do" may be true, that they did not deliberately ignore or omit large sections of populations that don't further their agenda. like charter schools.  Although I wonder if they included New Orleans - but post Katrina it is such an outlier I could see a valid reason NOT to include it because it would skew the study results

I hope you are not as naive as you sound, I fear that you are and hope no one else thinks the way you do............. trust in the powers that be and advocacy groups that conduct studies not to be biased?  Who are you trying to kid here?  Hope no one but yourself.  This kind of sheep like thinking really scares me

Some 'Public officials" bellyache about charter schools and some do not -- depends on their views and what is perceived to benefit different groups of taxpayers.  I suggest you educate yourself more on charters instead of spreading incorrect information and blaming others for being sloppy.[/quote][/quote]

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