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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For 10:03

OSSE releases a DC-wide annual report card, that aggregates demographics and reports on PARCC proficiency for all DCPS and charter school students (obviously it excludes home schooled or private school students) http://results.osse.dc.gov/state/DC

There are 87,343 total students in public and public charter schools in DC. [b]79% of those students are economically disadvantaged.[/b] [b]Only 27% of all students are proficient or advanced in ELA and 25% in math.
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For every grade level, no more than 30% of all students are proficient or advanced on PARCC in ELA; for math the high water mark is 37% proficient or advanced in math for all 3rd graders. http://results.osse.dc.gov/state/DC

If you just look only at the performance of non-economically disadvantaged students, the proficient and advanced numbers are 59% for ELA and 56% for math.

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10:03 here--thanks for providing these data.  Wow, stark numbers here.  From what's presented here, I just don't see a very robust argument for creating more challenging programs when the vast majority of the kids are performing so far below where they need to be.  Why would any politician push these sorts of programs and risk alienating the rest of the voter base?  I don't see it happening, at least not on a large scale, in the near future.[/quote]

These numbers don't count all the kids in privates. The question isn't just who uses the DC public schools now, it's who would if they were better. Also, I think it will be interesting to look at the post-widespread gentrification generation on the Hill; most of those kids are 5-7 now max.[/quote]

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