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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The working group to evaluate whether there even should be a merger will begin no earlier than 2027.  [/quote]

Why on earth shouldn't the working group start now? Not even bother to IMPLEMENT a working group for 3 years? Awful. Sorry, I know this board is full of Maury parents, but I think that Miner parents continue to get absolutely screwed with this decision. In bounds for a school that isn't working and DCPS will do nothing in the meantime.[/quote]

Maybe the Miner constituents should advocate for measure that will actually help Miner instead of enormously divisive and untested plans like the cluster. [/quote]

Nothing will help Miner without some form of boundary re-draw or demographic change. It has too many at risk kids in the school for even an effective administration to address.[/quote]

This is simply not true. There are tons of schools with similar or even higher at-risk numbers than Miner that do significantly better on PARCC — and I don’t want to overstate the importance of standardized test scores, but I’m not aware of what other objective standards there are to look to.

DC needs to be able to have effective schools with high at-risk populations, since DCPS is 50% at-risk. It can’t be that we just throw up our hands and say it’s impossible at 64%. We know that it is not impossible from the data for other schools that do better. [/quote]

right but/and - test scores aren't indicative of whether schools are doing better at teaching kids.[/quote]

What? Of course test scores are *indicative* of whether schools are doing better at teaching kids. Conclusive? No. The only thing that matters? No. An apples to apples comparison across schools with different demographics? No. But indicative? Obviously.[/quote]

No, no they're not. Study after study shows test scores are indicative of the SES status of the parents. [/quote]

All other things being equal.  But if you've got similarly at-risk schools performing quite a bit differently on tests, isn't that indicative of something?[/quote]

Exactly. This isn't Maury scores hire than Miner so it's teaching kids better. It's Miner is substantially underperforming schools with the same demographics or even more at risk students. Of course that's indicative of something.[/quote]

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