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Anonymous wrote:Categorization Q: our daughter is Hispanic and white. I know those code separately, usually. Does OSSE or whoever runs this code her as Hispanic? I assume not "two races" (as Hispanic is not a _race_, but these are two "categories" here) or "Caucasian/white" (as I thought that was supposed to map to White/Non-Hispanic.

Anybody know this one definitively?

What did you say when you registered her? They follow whatever is on her school record.

See page 2 (charters gather the same data) https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/SY19-20%20Enrollment%20Packet.pdf

Anonymous wrote:Categorization Q: our daughter is Hispanic and white. I know those code separately, usually. Does OSSE or whoever runs this code her as Hispanic? I assume not "two races" (as Hispanic is not a _race_, but these are two "categories" here) or "Caucasian/white" (as I thought that was supposed to map to White/Non-Hispanic.

Anybody know this one definitively?

What did you say when you registered her? They follow whatever is on her school record.

Categorization Q: our daughter is Hispanic and white. I know those code separately, usually. Does OSSE or whoever runs this code her as Hispanic? I assume not "two races" (as Hispanic is not a _race_, but these are two "categories" here) or "Caucasian/white" (as I thought that was supposed to map to White/Non-Hispanic.

Anybody know this one definitively?

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Anonymous wrote:There are some real dips in the data too. SSMA, ouch! And is this the end of the line for Harmony?

Damn, did SSMA even bother to teach? Those scores are abysmal. Probably a reflection of the school's administrative issues.

Wow. Parents must be flipping out. Langley and Langdon sure are looking good...

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen a link to the excel file that OSSE typically makes available that includes all of the results? The dashboard is nice, but not easy to use to look at the results of multiple schools/populations.

Found it. https://osse.dc.gov/page/2018-19-parcc-results-and-resources

Let's just give everyone in DC enough money to buy a home IB for a high performing school.

Fascinating infographic -Every 10% drop in 4+ PARCC = about $100K less for a home. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/07/21/a-house-near-a-high-performing-d-c-school-will-cost-you-heres-how-much/

Anonymous wrote:There are some real dips in the data too. SSMA, ouch! And is this the end of the line for Harmony?

Damn, did SSMA even bother to teach? Those scores are abysmal. Probably a reflection of the school's administrative issues.

99% private and parochial have better results because they (a) screen the applicants, (b) have limited to no special ed students (unless it is a special ed focus school like lab) and (c) toss out behavioral problems.

Regular DCPS, which does not have the luxury of (a), (b) and (c). By high school, the kids who want to do the work and are capable of doing the work have largely peeled off for charters, or test-in programs like Banneker or Walls.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

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.

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.

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

Thanks! Some of these numbers are just hearbreaking. What can we do?

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.

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.

Evidence?

Simple. 99% private and parochial schools have better results than those.

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/

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Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

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.

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.

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

Thanks! Some of these numbers are just hearbreaking. What can we do?

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.

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.

Evidence?

Simple. 99% private and parochial schools have better results than those.

I hope you don’t use your brain for a living. That says nothing about how well the private/parochial schools do with students of the same background as Ballou, etc.

In fact, studies of the voucher system in DC sometimes show worse results in private/parochial schools.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

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.

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.

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

Thanks! Some of these numbers are just hearbreaking. What can we do?

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.

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.

Evidence?

Simple. 99% private and parochial schools have better results than those.

^^ They don't in DC. And yes the 'good' privates also take the vouchers. But the kids have to get through the admissions process too

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article232847252.html

new to all this - when do we get our individual kid's results?

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Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

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.

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.

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

Thanks! Some of these numbers are just hearbreaking. What can we do?

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

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.

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.

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

Thanks! Some of these numbers are just hearbreaking. What can we do?

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.

Oh honey. Private schools don't want these kids at any price.