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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Less interested in YOY change. How does TPMS magnet demographics compare to the county’s?[/quote]p this is a better indicator of whether we’re headed in the right direction[/quote]

Are Asians still vastly over-represented at the magnets as a percentage of the County's total population?[/quote]

so we are using % of total representative pop as criteria now? no wonder mcps is all f'ed up[/quote]

Looking at the Maryland Report Card results for PARCC from 2017 for Grade 5 math in MCPS
There were 1319 students total in MCPS who "exceeded expectations" which seems like the bare minimum to be considered for TPMS magnet
Of these 494 were Asian (out of a total of 1653 Asian students), 550 were White (out of a total of 3476 white students), 102 were 2 or more races (out of 620).
So of the 1319 students who exceeded expectations 1146 came from these three groups which means only 173 students from other groups exceeded expectations.
http://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/ParccTrends.aspx?PV=71:5:15:AAAA:1:N:6:13:2:2:5:1:1:2:3

By 8th grade it is still bad
347 Asians (out of 969), 294 whites (out of 1797) and 45 mixed race (out of 281)
686 students from these three groups exceeded expectations.  The total number of Grade 8 who exceeded expectations 735 (49 from all other groups exceeded expectations).

The achievement gap is to blame for the poor representation of certain groups in the magnet programs.  MCPS needs to treat the problem instead of obscuring the symptoms by changing selection criteria

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NP here. I did not write the above post, but I must say it is very valid. But I would be interested to hear the other side's argument against this.[/quote]
+1
What this shows is that MCPS is totally failing half the kids in the county.  In 5th grade 87% of the kids who "exceeded expectations" for grade 5 Math are white, Asian or mixed race by 8th grade 94% of the kids who exceeded expectations in Math were from these three groups.   Together these groups are just under half of the student population.   Here we see exactly why these three groups are so highly represented in magnet programs (especially the math and science magnets).  MCPS is totally failing half of the population and needs to focus its attention on deepening the bench of kids who are performing at a high level and so are qualified for these competitive programs.  
btw around 11% of ALL students overall "exceeded expectation" so doing well is just the bare minimum to be considered for a highly selective math and science program with enough spots for fewer than 2% of the kids in the county[/quote]

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