Good to see @RepMcGovern @MayorPetty @Sen_Chandler @SenMikeMoore @RepJimODay @RepDanDonahue and many others at the #Worcester Education Equity Legislative breakfast 
And Rep @DavidLeBoeuf and @dante4schools and Jack Foley and Councilor King.
I’m going to ask for this full presentation (@WorcesterState sociology department), as the breakdown on access to advanced coursework was in here. This is graduation.
10th grade (next gen) MCAS (last year, first year, to my question of if there was a shift on the test change, answer was overall same pattern)
Also I appreciate the statisticians “they changed the test and now we have less data!” (because you can’t compare to prior years)
(Same complaint when we went to direct cert for low income)
The note on the SAT is that having everyone, as @worcesterpublic now does, take it (and the PSAT, though that wasn’t mentioned) has increased scores for about everyone.
Okay, discipline: left side is Hispanics students, right side is white students in Worcester
And here’s emergency removals (2017-18): the columns are Boston, Brockton, Lowell, Lynn, Springfield, Worcester
1443 incidents of emergency removal
267 were deemed suspendable
Less than 20% chance, then, that a removed student has been deemed to have committed a suspendable offense
About half non-violent, non-criminal offense (like leaving school without permission. Yes, really)
267 were deemed suspendable
Less than 20% chance, then, that a removed student has been deemed to have committed a suspendable offense
About half non-violent, non-criminal offense (like leaving school without permission. Yes, really)
This explains 2552 and 3528 days of absence.
(Back over to @CommonTalkPod’s chronic absenteeism discussion)
This is the @WorcesterState City Lab’s work, BTW. It’s almost all DESE data (there’s some census data in here, too, I think).
And DESE data is Worcester data.
And DESE data is Worcester data.
Next up @LCRBOSTON on chapter 222
Emergency removals are only when a student poses safety danger OR a substantial disruption AND there is no other way to stop it.
And it is called an emergency for a reason.
And it is called an emergency for a reason.
Reports to @LCRBOSTON from families of parents being called and told to immediately pick up their children or the schools will call DCF or the police.
Double digits of kids emergency removal who are less than ten
And it’s important to note here that Ch.222 increased the amount of due process that students have, thus emergency removals circumvent that process.
Note from @LCRBOSTON that Roxbury Prep (which has had a significant disciplinary issue) received stern warning about their disciplinary rates from the state (yup, I was at that meeting)
Good point being raised here of the role that many children in Worcester and elsewhere play as translators for their families.
Also, I think that many of us a few generations in have romanticized the immigrant experience such that we don’t recognize the trauma of it
And @RepMcGovern says “it’s crazy” that people can’t get access to the data.
Speaks of being “wind at the back” of the School Committee in getting data (that would require the School Committee majority to want it)
Next @Sen_Chandler says the delegation can at least write a letter to the superintendent on it
Questions here on commitment of @worcesterpublic if they’re not here...
And the Congressman will join the delegation’s call for WPS cooperation on data release.
So operationally, we have the state and part of the federal delegation calling for #Worcester school administrative accountability, which is the job and the purview of the school committee.
But politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum.
But politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum.
And @King4Worcester notes the lack of political will that has gotten us here.
And that’s a wrap here but do put the Worcester School Committee meeting of October 17 on your calendars (7pm, City Hall)
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