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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love to see,

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3 solid schools around 20% FARMS. It will help all students. It's puzzling to see Super not go for this when there are no drawbacks of doing it.[/quote]

Arbitrary 20% line is not what makes a good school or not[/quote]

It does. once school having much higher percentage of FARMS it's not good for FARMS and non-FARMS both. Unfortunately we can't create around 20% FARMS for all schools in our county but whenever we can do it withoiut any negative, not doing it simply criminal.

Off course just having 20% does not mean you don't need to other things to have good schools. but it helps a lot.[/quote]

DP I don't think there is any real tipping point that can be definitively known. The research is all observational, not to mention one group of kids that receive FARMS can be very different from another group of kids that receives FARMS. Same for non FARMS kids.

But what is obvious is that in general kids that receive FARMS have on average more needs than kids that don't receive FARMS. At the high school level schools receive no significant extra funding to address the needs associated with poverty. Spreading out those needs evenly across schools makes it easier to meet those needs absent additional resources. It is truly criminal to intentionally concentrate the needs in one of two schools that are so close together.[/quote]

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