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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would you close Coolidge?[/quote]
Because it’s way under enrolled. Because folks won’t send their kids to Coolidge. [/quote]

Wash Met is closing because of enrollment and academic performance, right?

On PARCC, Wash Met and Coolidge have the same proficiency: 10% proficient in ELA, 0% in math. Ballou's proficiency is lower for ELA. The two STAY programs have lower proficiency than Wash Met as does the alternative Luke C Moore school.

Are there really better options for the Wash Met students?
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DCPS has an embarrassment of riches, so to speak, when it comes to 1 and 2 star high schools (PARCC is only given in one year; for high school SAT and graduation rate count more, so the report cards are probably a better gauge). Perhaps we should close them all?

Dunbar -2, Ballou - 1, Coolidge - 1, Anacostia - 1, Cardozo -1, Ron Brown - 1, Roosevelt - 1, Woodson - 1[/quote]

No but we need to look closer at the realities of supporting the students at Wash Met (and elsewhere). If all of the Wash Met students were put at a 4 or 5 star school would the students suddenly have 4 or 5 star performance? Would the school continue to have 4 or 5 star performance? [/quote]

Eastern-2. There are so few students at Wash Met, they probably would not.make a noticeable difference unless they alll went to the same school.[/quote]

The biggest challenge at Washington Met, and the other alternative schools, is that the students are at such a high risk of dropping out. They know they are not strong students, and they really do need far more support, academic and emotional, than they are possibly going to get at any of the comprehensives. It's also clear that the education system has failed them for years, or they wouldn't need an alternative school, and now one that at least some of the students felt comfortable in and was trying to help them finish high school, is being closed.

That's tough, no matter what those of us on DCUM think of their achievement scores. [/quote]

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