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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Naive" ACPS teacher here trying to find solutions... what do neighboring jurisdictions with similar demographics do better than we do?  How can we emulate their successes? So far in this discussion, here are the proposals that make sense to me:  more summer school opportunities; funding after-school tutoring at rec centers; more culturally/linguistically-sensitive and -informed teachers; distribution of SOL scores (and SUBSCORES :) ) to teachers at the beginning of the school year; and higher teacher salaries.  [/quote]

how about redistricting to balance out the FARMs rate among ACPS elementary schools?  [/quote]

This is a good suggestion, but I think it's easier said than done.[/quote]

Over 20 plus years? That hard?[/quote]

You don't get it.  The last big redistricting was done specifically to isolate the low income children at specific schools, thereby attracting middle and upper class children back to the other schools.  (I've posted articles from the WaPo and Alexandria papers where this was acknowledged, but I don't have time to go find them again now). It worked.  Now the "best" (i.e., middle class) schools are overcrowded, and the disparity is readily apparent and shocking, but there is no way the school board is going to even things back out again.   The parents of the more affluent kids destined for J-H will go private or move to Arlington (which is what almost everyone did before).

I also agree with those who point out that ACPS is almost solely focused on improving the test scores of underprivileged children.  That's not a bad thing, but when you do that, don't be surprised if the more privileged take their children elsewhere.  I was in a meeting with the Superintendent (Sherman, at the time), who was asked how ACPS could attract private school students back to public school, and he said "Private school is a good option for some people."  [/quote]

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