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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]But— a lot of this law is in the context of college admissions, where there a set number of seats. AAP is different, because every qualified kid is supposed to be admitted. Unlike Harvard, a URM getting admission does not take a seat from some other, possibly more qualified kid. Your UMC white kid will still be admitted, whether or not the YS model is used to identify additional URM kids.[/quote]

Umm.. no.

25% is a statistical measure.

It's not like they are saying they want 5 kids of X race per class of 20 . They want 25% of  AAP according to OP. That means, possibly, admitting less kids per class of Y race. 
Or, it could mean admitting a LOT fo X race and continuing to admit "your UMC white kid." Then class sizes could be bigger.

They already do this anyway. It's nothing new. It's apparent if you are in a center and have friends at other schools who share scores. Otherwise they wouldn't require name, race, and school on the cover page that gets submitted. It would be a blind admission based on a number. And it's not. [/quote]

The below is a quote from the OP. I read this as saying that the the goal is that 25% or more of each subgroup, not 25% of total AAP.More than four groups are listed, so it can’t be 25% of AAP. There are places for any child who qualifies, so no group is taking the places of another group.

It sounds more to me that the end goal is for more than 25% of all FCPS students to eventually be in AAP, if the goal for each subgroup to be 25% or more.

[quote]Setting targets that [b]each[/b] measured demographic subgroup (Asian, Black, Hispanic, White, Economically Disadvantaged, English Language Learners, and Students with Disabilities) would be at or above 25% participation in AAP by 2022-24 and would be at equal percentages of participation by 2028-2030[/quote]. [/quote]

All these people who claim to have bred genius kids seem to lack reading comprehension skills [/quote]

Heh- they seemed to be having a little trouble with the math involved, too. 
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