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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a little confused -- people claim that there are good public and public charter schools in DC, but the National Center for Education Statistics ranks DC public schools (including the 109 charters) below national averages in math, reading, science and writing.

http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/states/

The only report that ranks DC charter schools separately is issued by the DC Public Charter School Board, which is hardly an independent source.

I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm actually looking for real facts -- where are people getting their data to support assertions that these public schools are high performing?[/quote]

Yea its not fair to compare DC to STATES...but because its a district thats what usually happens, even so DC is bad when compared to other cities as well, a lot of the charter schools are a sham, even the elite one's in NorthWest that all the affluent whites are trying to get their kids into are subpar  [/quote]

Where do you live and where are your children enrolled? [/quote]

Mitchellville/woodmore area[/quote]

Did you miss this part?

"DC has a 50-point gap between eligible/not eligible for free lunch and the [b]highest scores in the country for those in the "not eligible" category."[/b]

I would hardly call that subpar.[/quote]

make sense, but is that due to the school system or just the highly educated majority white population in certain sections of the city? I always judge a system on how it does with its poorer residents. I"m curious to see the racial breakdown of those scores[/quote]

What woudlbt racial breakdown do for you? Are you assuming there are not any educated black families in DC? The schools aren't failing the non-poverty kids and based on a recent DCUM survey, most people aren't supplementing their students via tutoring.[/quote]

No not all, schools like shepherd park i'm sure test well, like the white highly educated kids in other parts of NW. But how many communities are like that? [b]As a AA myself when I judge a certain school I like to look at the minority ie Black kids test scores because they can lag behind others even if the school produces great test results. What good is a great school with great test results if ur child isn't benefiting[/b].[/quote]

What are you saying? That because your child is black he/she would lag behind? You might want to rephrase because that's how your post reads. 
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