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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But yes- this data strongly suggests that the option schools are exacerbating segregration, not reducing it.  Because it allows the more resourced families who live in the high FARMS area to transfer out- leaving the FARMS rate even higher.   [/quote]

yes and no - exacerbating segregation in the neighborhood schools; but creating some integrated programs, namely the immersion programs.  You can also argue that Campbell is integrated relative to its primary feeder neighborhood school, Carlin Springs.

And even though I supported the change in neighborhood preferences for admissions to option programs, I simultaneously feared the real impact on the high FRL schools that already have a huge portion of non-FRL opting out.  More seats opening for whom?  More MC or more ED and ELL?  I think APS should publish the expected FRL rate if nobody opted out with the final proposal so that more MC families will view their neighborhood option more positively and maybe not be so urgent or desperate to avoid it.[/quote]

They did do that, probably for that reason, and everyone who knows the real farms rates at these schools knows that including option students in the revised rate calculation is a way of politicizing the data, and an attempt at damage control because the proposal will create a new 80% poor school at Drew, and does nothing to lower the rates at Randolph or carlin.[/quote]

Give up Randolph
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