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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whole thing sounds like a giant social experiment. One that will cost a lot, and not just in dollars   We keep hearing how this will benefit low-income students, and close the opportunity gap. They've been trying things to close the opportunity gap for decades, and nothing has worked. While I do support programs to help close the opportunity gap, I believe our Title One schools and Focus schools, already have extra money different school, smaller class size and extra programs, what will it do for everyone else?  Will it help them to rise, or bring them down?  Show me the data please![/quote]

I hope MCPS will take in to account the loss of Title 1 benefits..If they manage to re-arrange the boundaries so there are fewer title one schools, is the county better off.  The needing population has not changed but we lost federal $$.  This was one of the issues in the RM cluster with re-zoning Twinbrook.  Hi Twinbrook family, we are going to move your neighborhood to a different school with better test scores.  It is only 15 minutes longer on the bus and the class size is typically 28 kids.  MCPS is looking out for you!
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I don’t think Title 1 funding for the district will be affected.  “Title 1 schools” actually means schools that have a high enough FARMs rate that federal Title 1 funds may be used for school-wide programs rather than being required to be used for targeted programs that specifically aid children in impoverished families.  The federal threshold is much lower than the MCPS threshold.  The class size policies are how MCPS chooses to use Title 1 funds but they could choose to use them differently or I think they could still use them to reduce class sizes at schools with FOCUS-level FARMs rates.[/quote]

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