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The Arizona high attrition model won’t fly in DC for obvious reasons.  Instead, Basis will come under heavy pressure from charter board to manufacture a creative solution to keep struggling students on board, e.g. [b]Yu Ying’s non-immersion Mandarin track (where all the kids are black).[/b]   The National Assessment for Educational Progress (think tank giving a small percent of students in every state and DC the same test in 4th and 8th grades) findings on the vast black-white achievement gap  in DC, coupled with non-selective admissions, do not auger well for the school: more than a third of DC white kids currently score in NAEP’s “advanced” category  for reading and math (vs. 14% of white in the highest scoring state, Massachusetts) and 1-2% of black kids.  Politically, will Basis be in a good position to encourage a large percentage of the black kids to hit the road?   The franchise surely won’t bite the hand that feeds it, risking having their charter revoked, by allowing anywhere near the attrition rates seen in AZ.   No, standards will invariably be watered down instead, with victory declared  in the number of AP tests taken per capita (easy to do when there’s no magic AP pass number, and scores of 2s and 3s out of 5 on AP tests are already the DCPS norm).
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The two white families transferred opted out and left the school. Given the option, I would transfer my child out as well, if for no other reason to avoid people like you. [/quote]

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