Posts tagged Septima Clark
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Charter school resources don’t always correlate with ranking
In charter schools, as in traditional public schools, money doesn’t always guarantee results. One school, Paul Public Charter School, manages to do a lot with a little. The DC Public Charter School Board (PCSB) has recently released data detailing the amount of private money contributed to each charter school over the past three years. The amounts vary widely, as reported… Keep reading…
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Here’s the DC school ranking you should be looking at
People make a lot of decisions based on school test scores. Parents select schools for their children. Administrators fire principals and close schools. But few realize that they are using the wrong scores to make these important decisions. Most people use the “percent proficiency” score, which measures what percentage of the students in… Keep reading…