By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:46:18 +0000

Excellent, interesting post. One question that comes to mind is whether capping enrollment in the way that Aspire did will effect its test score outcomes. Do truant, late arriving students tend to have less parent support at home? Do they tend to be lower scoring students than those who enroll on time at the beginning of the year? Do they tend to have issues with attendance throughout the school year? If so, then capping enrollment has changed the student population at Coleman substantially, and it will be hard to know to what any future test score increase should be attributed – better instruction, or an enrollment process that effectively excluded truant students and avoided the type of mid-year disruption that zoned schools are typically having to deal with. Sending these late enrolling students to other schools also increases the burdens of truancy for those other schools, beyond what they would typically have to accommodate. While Coleman students may have a smoother school year and more consistent school culture because of this enrollment practice, it would seem to come at the expense of increased disruption for students in other schools. It may make sense for smoothly running one particular school, but it will undermine attempts to compare Coleman’s test performance before and after ASD takeover.

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