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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the poster who thinks that Drew as a neighborhood school will have a lower FARMS rate, then Drew with Montessori- you should know that APS stated at the budget work session that when Montessori is removed from Drew, the Montessori program will no longer be Title I, because the FARMS students who make the  school Title I are in the neighborhood program.

I don't actually have a problem with high FARMS schools, and I think the new principal is outstanding.  But- if you think the school is going to improve in a Great Schools sense (which is really all based on test scores, which is based on socioeconomic status) then you are dead wrong.[/quote]

I too think the new principal sounds like an outstanding choice. I am worried that she won't last. Drew hasn't kept a principal for more than a year or two, like, 4 or 5 times in a row. That tells me something is f'd up there. I don't buy the old "split school" explanation (half graded, half Montessori), on its face. I think the neighborhood program must be a huge challenge for which it is extremely hard to make progress. If anyone can do it, it's Principal Graves. But she had the wind at her back with demographic change at Hoffman and I don't think that will be the case at Drew in the near term.[/quote]

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