[WardFive] Re: [ward5] Fwd: [concerned4DCPS] Trading Places: An Analysis of DC Charter HS Transfer Rates (Thanks to Dan Ackroyd & Eddie Murphy)

So the questions here are:

1. When are the kids being transferred?

2. Why are the kids being transferred?

3. Who is requesting the transfer?

4. Of the kids being transferred, do they all have bad geades or underperforming?

5. Can Erich Martel separate the graduation rates to represent the graduating rates of transfer students as a separate catagory for both DCPS and Charter to have more clear perspective?

6. Is a tracking system being utilized by Charter Schools which directly correlates with underperforming students and them being transferred - somebody has to know if this is a practice.

7. Are transfers from Charter Middle Schools following the same rate/ratio which in turn would help boost their proficiency reports while decreasing DCPS schools?

Rob Ramson

On May 25, 2013 7:52 PM, "KPW" <WKPW3@aol.com> wrote:

 

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From: Harry Travis <travis.harry@gmail.com>
To: concerned4DCPS <concerned4DCPS@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sat, May 25, 2013 11:28 am
Subject: Re: [concerned4DCPS] Trading Places: An Analysis of DC Charter HS Transfer Rates (Thanks to Dan Ackroyd & Eddie Murphy)

 

I hope others will pay attention to this. There is now a national standard reporting statistic for graduation which does not credit the school for completing the education of students who started HS elsewhere. So, additional measures of institutional effort and success should be used in DC, where there is such high transfer rate -- something like emigration / immigration, with returns -- .

What Erich is saying is that crediting charter schools may be like crediting chiropracters for the successful outcomes achieved by the MD specialist in osteopathy the patient subsequently went to for medical treatment. 

Yes, it is strange to think of DCPS that way. But, then, to think otherwise is to give insufficient credit to the professional educators and counselours in DCPS high schools.

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Erich Martel <ehmartel@starpower.net> wrote:

[Attachment(s) from Erich Martel included below]

Dear Council Member (Council staff, please print out this cover email and the one-page attachment for your CM. Thank you),

 

You constantly hear assertions about "high performing charter schools."  In 2012, charter high schools outperformed DCPS high schools by 21% points, but is that really true when only 45% of the starting 9th graders graduated?

 

I am asking you to act in the interest of students, families and teachers.  Do not make public school policy and budgetary decisions on the basis of the charter school privilege gap (see below)

 

The attached 1 page word document makes one to one comparisons between 8 DC charter high schools' and 8 DCPS high schools' 2012 graduation data.  First you see the numbers of starting 9th graders, graduates and graduation rates.  Then the number & percentage of students transferred out of each school. 

Then the percentage of transferred students is exchanged, as if DCPS could send its weaker students to the charter schools who had to keep them.

 

When applied to the graduating class of 2012, the results should make you want to demand a full investigation into DCPS school closings and transfers of public property to charter operators.

 

DC OSSE Graduation Rates for 2012

Charters:  888 graduates, 77% graduation rate

DCPS:  2122 graduates, 56% graduation rate

 

Changing Places:  DCPS & DC charter high schools exchange transfer rates:

Charter Transfer rate:  41% goes to DCPS high schools

DCPS Transfer rate: 15% goes to the Charter high schools

 

Graduation Rates After Switching Transfer (Removal) Rates:

Charters:  888 graduates, 53% graduation rate (77% - 53% = 24%, the charter privilege gap)

DCPS:   2122 graduates, 81% graduation rate (81% - 56% = 25%, the charter privilege gap)

 

Time to act.

Erich Martel

Retired DCPS high school teacher

ehmartel@starpower.net

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Trading Places DCPS & Charter 2012 Grad Data.doc

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