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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Large EOTP non-charter High Schools scraping the barrel bottom with math scores in the 0% - 3% range.

Ballou: 5% / 2%
Cardoza: 13% / 4%
Dunbar: 16% / 0%
Eastern: 25% / 0%

Why isn't this the #1 story in the city?

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Wow.

And incredibly those are the schools with $100M+ flashy new buildings. What a waste, and what incredible levels of corruption and incompetence.

Poor kids.[/quote]

Most of the kids are extremely at risk. Are you saying they don’t deserve a new building? This is nothing new. There are extremely at risk kids all over the country that can’t pass a standardized test, particular kids of color. That doesn’t mean they don’t deserve a nice building to be in. [/quote]

I agree that this should be #1 article in the WP! What is this city doing to educate its most at risk kids? Building shiny buildings is not enough. [/quote]

The "city" does have schools where at-risk students are doing better; some of them:

Banneker - at-risk ELA 95% (too few math to release - likely because they took Alg 2 in MS)

Thurgood Marshall - Overall 47/26 At-risk 43/23

KIPP College Prep 32/26

McKinley Tech overall 65/31  at-risk 56/18

CHEC overall 34/7 at-risk 31/15

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Thanks!  Some of these numbers are just hearbreaking. What can we do?[/quote]

Close down those schools, sell the buildings and the land, use the proceeds to 1) give $30k vouchers per kid so they can go to proper schools, 2) spend $20k per kid in social workers and wrap-around support.

Cheaper and better than what we do today, when locsl politicos simply see schools as a way to give jobs to friends and family.[/quote]

Where’s your evidence that private schools do better?

If you start your answer by drawing on the power of the free market, just stop.[/quote]

Evidence?

Simple. 99% private and parochial schools have better results than those.[/quote]

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