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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]this shows that schools need to be busting their ass to attract and retain high SES/high achieving families. The schools and teachers are going to depend on those super stars to save their ass.  If teachers and schools are going to be judged on PARCC scores they better come up with some incentive to keep these populations.  My kid is only in PS and I am already frustrated with our IB lousy test scores and disastrous PTA organization.  And my kid is exactly the kind of kid they need to take the PARCC on third grade but we will, along with our counterparts, will all have moved on.[/quote]

You missed the entire point of school reform (and DCPS's mission) altogether. It's not about raising test scores. The point is to improve education for poor disenfranchised minorities. High test scores are only important in that poor black kids do well on them.

A 95% PARCC pass rate with just 90+% of the passers being white= a HUGE FAIL for the school, its teachers and principal. That's why no matter how good some scores may look, they're still considered unimpressive if an achievement gap exists.[/quote]

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