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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I listened to a story about school vouchers in New Orleans on NPR yesterday.  Apparently, kids with vouchers who move to private schools do about the same or even worse than their peers who stay in public schools.  Here's the transcript:

http://revealnews.org/episodes/the-cost-of-school-choice/[/quote]

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