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GS is doing a comparison of DISPARITIES.  (If I am reading the methodology report correctly - which btw many of you keyboard warriors have clearly not read).  Meaning they are comparing the DISPARITY between groups at your school to the DISPARITY between the same groups at the state level.  Do you even understand this?  You can argue whether or not measuring this disparity gives any meaning to the overall measure of a school.  Instead you're sitting there yelling about "racism." 
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From their website, this is what GS says they are doing:

"The Equity Rating is computed based upon the performance of disadvantaged groups and relative size of in-school gaps. These two components allow us to evaluate a school’s success in educating disadvantaged groups compared to students throughout the state, as well as compared specifically to other students at the school."

What they are actually doing is just the second, which means that the HS with the smallest population of disadvantaged students, Langley, has the highest equity score.  Think about that.  It doesn't make sense.[/quote]

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