Anonymous
05/18/2025 10:23
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Never change Arlington. 8 pages of liberals angry that a successful school serving low income immigrants, enough to be Title 1, will get more federal money to serve low income immigrants.
But why won’t other high FARMs schools get the same federal money?
Because APS has to redo boundaries. ATS won’t be affected by those changes. Fleet and Innovation will.
Sure.
And why are they applying for Title 1 status NOW, when the FRL hasn’t changed much the past few years?
PP may be right that ATS has been watered down and not doing as well.
Because the VPI changes have filtered through all grades now. It’s reliably at title I levels and VPI means it will stay there.
What a shame for the other schools that also meet the criteria. Inequitable really.
To be fair we don’t know that those schools aren’t also in process of getting it. ATS has the posting but that doesn’t mean others won’t soon. (I work at one of the schools but don’t have any inside info, I do know we have had a lot of students leave in the last few months)
Anonymous
05/18/2025 10:22
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Never change Arlington. 8 pages of liberals angry that a successful school serving low income immigrants, enough to be Title 1, will get more federal money to serve low income immigrants.
I think most parents just want all the eligible schools to get the benefit of the federal money, including ATS. I think I saw only saw 1 poster suggesting otherwise.
Anonymous
05/18/2025 10:09
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Never change Arlington. 8 pages of liberals angry that a successful school serving low income immigrants, enough to be Title 1, will get more federal money to serve low income immigrants.
But why won’t other high FARMs schools get the same federal money?
Because APS has to redo boundaries. ATS won’t be affected by those changes. Fleet and Innovation will.
Sure.
And why are they applying for Title 1 status NOW, when the FRL hasn’t changed much the past few years?
PP may be right that ATS has been watered down and not doing as well.
Because the VPI changes have filtered through all grades now. It’s reliably at title I levels and VPI means it will stay there.
What a shame for the other schools that also meet the criteria. Inequitable really.
Not if those schools become less farms after boundary changes.
Anonymous
05/18/2025 10:04
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Never change Arlington. 8 pages of liberals angry that a successful school serving low income immigrants, enough to be Title 1, will get more federal money to serve low income immigrants.
But why won’t other high FARMs schools get the same federal money?
Because APS has to redo boundaries. ATS won’t be affected by those changes. Fleet and Innovation will.
Sure.
And why are they applying for Title 1 status NOW, when the FRL hasn’t changed much the past few years?
PP may be right that ATS has been watered down and not doing as well.
Because the VPI changes have filtered through all grades now. It’s reliably at title I levels and VPI means it will stay there.
What a shame for the other schools that also meet the criteria. Inequitable really.
Anonymous
05/18/2025 09:55
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Never change Arlington. 8 pages of liberals angry that a successful school serving low income immigrants, enough to be Title 1, will get more federal money to serve low income immigrants.
But why won’t other high FARMs schools get the same federal money?
Because APS has to redo boundaries. ATS won’t be affected by those changes. Fleet and Innovation will.
Sure.
And why are they applying for Title 1 status NOW, when the FRL hasn’t changed much the past few years?
PP may be right that ATS has been watered down and not doing as well.
Because the VPI changes have filtered through all grades now. It’s reliably at title I levels and VPI means it will stay there.
Anonymous
05/18/2025 09:22
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Never change Arlington. 8 pages of liberals angry that a successful school serving low income immigrants, enough to be Title 1, will get more federal money to serve low income immigrants.
But why won’t other high FARMs schools get the same federal money?
Because APS has to redo boundaries. ATS won’t be affected by those changes. Fleet and Innovation will.
Sure.
And why are they applying for Title 1 status NOW, when the FRL hasn’t changed much the past few years?
PP may be right that ATS has been watered down and not doing as well.
Anonymous
05/18/2025 09:16
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Never change Arlington. 8 pages of liberals angry that a successful school serving low income immigrants, enough to be Title 1, will get more federal money to serve low income immigrants.
But why won’t other high FARMs schools get the same federal money?
Because APS has to redo boundaries. ATS won’t be affected by those changes. Fleet and Innovation will.
Anonymous
05/18/2025 08:56
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Never change Arlington. 8 pages of liberals angry that a successful school serving low income immigrants, enough to be Title 1, will get more federal money to serve low income immigrants.
But why won’t other high FARMs schools get the same federal money?
Anonymous
05/18/2025 08:39
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Here's the FARM stats:
https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2025/03/FreeReduced-20242025.pdf
So confused why ATS (may be) considered Title I while Innovation and Fleet may not be. I haven't seen the official announcement, but this does seem wrong.
Are the demographics for those schools expected to change? Maybe they will apply after the next boundary changes.
PP said VPI change was made at ATS in 2020. Probably enough history now to see the pattern at ATS.
Innovation will turn higher farms with the new giant Marbella tower opening in the fall. They should be Title I before ATS.
Weirdly the only elementary school they are offering transfers to next year is Science Focus to Innovation. Is that Marbella tower not going to fill Innovation?
I will be surprised if the second Marbella tower ever gets built. Seems like they can't figure out how to finance it.
My hunch is APS is planning boundary changes to fill innovation. It will be less farms.
Anonymous
05/18/2025 08:33
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Here's the FARM stats:
https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2025/03/FreeReduced-20242025.pdf
So confused why ATS (may be) considered Title I while Innovation and Fleet may not be. I haven't seen the official announcement, but this does seem wrong.
Are the demographics for those schools expected to change? Maybe they will apply after the next boundary changes.
PP said VPI change was made at ATS in 2020. Probably enough history now to see the pattern at ATS.
Innovation will turn higher farms with the new giant Marbella tower opening in the fall. They should be Title I before ATS.
Weirdly the only elementary school they are offering transfers to next year is Science Focus to Innovation. Is that Marbella tower not going to fill Innovation?
I will be surprised if the second Marbella tower ever gets built. Seems like they can't figure out how to finance it.
+1
Anonymous
05/18/2025 08:32
Subject: Aps title 1
Never change Arlington. 8 pages of liberals angry that a successful school serving low income immigrants, enough to be Title 1, will get more federal money to serve low income immigrants.
Anonymous
05/18/2025 08:28
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:No one ever wins in the who’s most oppressed Olympics.
It's not about winning, it's about applying the formula for Title 1 applications evenly across all the schools in APS.
Anonymous
05/18/2025 08:25
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Here's the FARM stats:
https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2025/03/FreeReduced-20242025.pdf
So confused why ATS (may be) considered Title I while Innovation and Fleet may not be. I haven't seen the official announcement, but this does seem wrong.
Are the demographics for those schools expected to change? Maybe they will apply after the next boundary changes.
PP said VPI change was made at ATS in 2020. Probably enough history now to see the pattern at ATS.
Innovation will turn higher farms with the new giant Marbella tower opening in the fall. They should be Title I before ATS.
Weirdly the only elementary school they are offering transfers to next year is Science Focus to Innovation. Is that Marbella tower not going to fill Innovation?
I will be surprised if the second Marbella tower ever gets built. Seems like they can't figure out how to finance it.
Anonymous
05/18/2025 08:11
Subject: Aps title 1
Wasn’t ATS a Title I school previously? I thought it was maybe 5 or so years ago when one of my children was entering K and I was looking at schools.
Anonymous
05/18/2025 08:06
Subject: Aps title 1
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:ATS is successful because of the immigrant families there. They want homework and good behavior. They show up to school on the first day with flowers for the teachers and dress to the nines for every event. They expect their kids to be successful.
Which immigrants
Ethiopian, Eritrean, Mongolian, Bolivian, El Salvadoran...
Actually, that’s not quite correct. ATS is unique for Arlington in that it has a very small (~10%) contingent of Hispanic students (made up from many different countries, not just one or two), and 30% Asian population. That’s the largest percentage Asian of any school in Arlington, as far as I know.
And yes, all are very motivated, across all ethnic backgrounds.
Looks like 20% black too. Double the percent for all elementary schools.
Yes there is a large Ethiopian/Eritrean population at the school