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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://vimeo.com/446846141
Found this linked from a news story.[/quote]

That video holds no maximum quota. Read the preso again. Man, no wonder why your kid didn't get in.

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/loudoun/Board.nsf/files/BS9PUK66501E/$file/Academies%20of%20Loudoun%20Admission%20081120.pdf

If they cannot fill the expected quota by census, they will go county-wide to determine the next admission. Also, this is almost 5 years old at this point and has changed. Teacher recommendations matter, as do real grades. They specifically denote in this 2020-2021 policy that they *don't* just because of COVID.[/quote]

It also doesn't say a minimum quota, though presumably they admit 2% of a total of 7500 8th graders, so 75% of that would be 1.5%.
You are correct that maximum quota is not listed there, though the slides are not what I remember.  I remember Willard's 31, but also 10 for AOS and 11 for AET for another school, which was the maximum quota, but that is not in that meeting.  Everything else I remember is in this meeting.  I didn't notice at the time but there appears to be a quota for low-income as well.
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I really don't think you know what the word quota means. There's no minimum. There's no maximum. There's no brown, poor, or green quota system.

They align the census data towards the application data and try to make those values be congruent with the student population. "Changing" the criteria in 2021 to more even amounts per middle school had almost no effect on the racial disparity in the academies.

In 2020, the 23% asian population in LCPS represented 82% of the AoS accepted offers. The very next year it resulted in 60% of the AoS accepted offers - and AET stayed the exact same - with that same 23%.[/quote]

The only reason people think that there might be a quota is because there have been so many attempts to limit certain populations generally.  So that's where their mind goes.

The way to address this isn't to say "you're nuts, nothing going on here, move along"  The way to address this is to say "while there are certainly plenty of attempts to limit some groups, that is not what is going on here, lets go fight the racists together"[/quote]

Check the links above.  There is a minimum quota per school.  The school board speaking, this looks like there intent was to reduce Asian numbers.  Unlike with TJ, prep was mentioned.  One school boiard member objected to the idea these kids only got in because of prep.[/quote]

Oh snap.  That was pretty bad too.

Anyone who thinks test prep accounts for the differences is making excuses and they know it.
The same arguments were raised in NYC regarding the asians at stuyvesant until someone pointed out that asians have the highest rate of poverty in NYC and that a larger percentage of asian kids at stuyvesant were FARM students than the general student population at stuyvesant.  Wealth has very little to do with it.  Peer reviewed research conludes that the gaps are largely a matter of differences in effort and poverty does not preclude effort.

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