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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't keep straight if--according to posters here---Washington Latin is crappy and should never be allowed to open a second campus because it a) doesn't serve its at-risk population well or b) is trying to serve more at-risk students or c) doesn't serve its children-of-blue-chip-school alum well.

You all are too much:)

I cannot, in the end, buy the argument that Latin is somehow undeserving of opening a second campus. By any metric, it's a good school, doing good work, in high demand with a commitment to staying diverse.   DC most certainly needs more seats in schools like this.

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Yes, it is trying to serve more at risk students but it doesn't serve it's current at risk population very well.  You can read all about it in the charter board meeting transcript when Latin applied to expand.[/quote]

Here we go again.  You are mischaracterizing the charter board meeting concerns.  A couple of the board members were concerned about the GAP in performances on the PARCC--rightly so.  But they admit that Latin does far better with at-risk students than other schools in the city.  Here is a direct quote:

VICE CHAIR BIREDA: I think just to
 continue the conversation around serving our most
 needy kids, [b]I just was quickly looking at your
PARCC scores last year, and while of course, you
far exceed where most of the city is, [/b]there is a
quite large gap for your at-risk performance
versus -- I mean, your highest-performing group,
which is white students.
MR. ANDERSON: Right.
VICE CHAIR BIREDA: So it gives me
pause when I think about the idea that you go to a place where you'll be serving more of those
students. Can you talk to me about how you --
what your plan is to increase performance of at-
risk students and to close that gap?

MR. ANDERSON: Absolutely. So if you
went back a couple years and looked at our at-
risk students, you would notice that our
proficiency rate in ELA was 39 percent at a time
when the proficiency rate for at-risk student in
the city was 13 percent.[/quote]

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