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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Scott Pearson, who I am not a fan of, put it well today. Turning around performance for at-risk kids is the work of a generation, not a copule years.

FWIW at-risk students city-wide gained 3% in ELA over last year, and held steady in math. Not nearly enough, but surely better than a backslide.

WaPo: "Citywide passing rates for at-risk students — which means they are homeless or in foster care, their families qualify for public assistance, or they have been held back more than a year in high school — increased 2.7 percentage points in English and remained about the same in math."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/08/19/dc-students-make-steady-gains-english-portion-standardized-exam/[/quote]

Is Pearson just realizing this? Under his leadership the PCSB is closing schools that are giving at-risk kids a better option than they would otherwise have and replicating schools where at-risk kids under-perform. It's a reflection of the PMF to be sure since the PMF doesn't take consider at-risk status or performance separately from all kids. Still it's an odd statement from Pearson since charters only have a few years to show and prove performance on the PMF and it doesn't matter whether they are doing well (or not) with at-risk kids. [/quote]

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