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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it's not Title I, it won't have guaranteed PK and will have to take a certain percentage of OOB at-risk kids.  The boundary is basically half public housing and half market rate housing, so it seems unlikely that the school will be overwhelmingly non-eligible for FARMS.

How much energy is being put into figuring out ways to help low-income families (and others) succeed at Van Ness?  Will there be a uniform closet? Good before and aftercare? A full-time social worker or psychologist? Parenting education classes so families can support what their kids are learning in school? Partnership with a family strengthening collaborative? I did appreciate that DCPS started holding some planning meetings on the SW side of the boundary--that seemed like a step in the right direction.  But there's a lot more that could happen.[/quote]

I'm pretty confident that VN will surpass the 10 percent OOB and "at Rick" thresholds in 2016-17, regardless of Title I status.  With Title I status comes a lot of bells and whistles, including DCPS aftercare and other supports.  A more interesting question is whether DCPS will make VN a Community Eligible Option school whereby all students get free meals. [b] In the end, the demographic profile of the K class will set the trajectory of the school.[/b]  How many kids will be reading and writing by the end of the year?  How many will need intensive behavioral interventions?  Only time, not the number of apartment units being built, will tell.[/quote]

Do you really not think there's anything families of prospective students, or DCPS, can be doing now so that a higher percentage of kids are ultimately successful?  Given the range of CAS scores among schools with fairly similar FARMs percentages, I think there must be some things schools can do to help low-income kids succeed.  Also, I'm not sure that race and income are the only determinants of whether little kids need "intensive behavioral interventions."  I've seen some pretty wealthy kids act badly in school settings, especially if they've never been to day care or gotten to socialize much with other kids their age.  It's also been my experience that poorer kids get potty trained sooner and have fewer accidents (which makes sense: diapers and laundry are expensive!).  [/quote]

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