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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My link didn't come out clickable before. I really wish someone would read this.

https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2018/09/26/list-studies-test-scores-poverty-school-income/

"The study examines a “set of welfare and antipoverty experiments conducted in the 1990s … Our estimates suggest that a $1,000 increase in annual income increases young children’s achievement by 5%–6% of a standard deviation.” Developmental Psychology (2011)
“An additional $4000 per year for the poorest households increases educational attainment by one year at age 21 and reduces having ever committed a minor crime by 22% at ages 16?17.” American Economic Journal (2010)"

If there are 60,000 FARMS kids in MCPS then giving each FARMS family 1K per kid per school year would only cost 60K a year yet yield a 5%-6% increase in performance. Giving each FAR&lt;S family 4K a year would be 240K per year.

The investigation into MCPS Damascus assaults is costing 250K.  60K is fraction of the travel budget for conferences. The former Damascus principle is sitting in a made up job for 140K a year plus benefits while the DUI Damascus AP is sitting in another made up job. . Getting rid of these two positions would pay for it with left over money. &gt;[/quote]

I'm with you, PP. I do think it would be great to see some rigorous longitudinal studies on a system like this and see if it works, because it sure does sound like that would be a better way to allocate $$$.[/quote]

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