The following is taken from the summary of a SAS EVAAS report to WCPSS on June 29. This information was withheld until Friday, October 2. This validates our concern that while making the schools in the system look “Healthy”, current policies are failing many students.

Because the WCPSS E&R (Evaluation & Research) analyses include two adjustments for students’ socio-economic status, these key systematic differences are hidden in the results of the E&R analysis. The WCPSS E&R analyses ‘expects’ students who are poor to score lower at the end of the year than more affluent students, even when individual students from a lower ses(socio-economic status)group start the school year at the very same achievement as more advantaged students, it ‘forgives’ the school serving the poorer students because of the demographic makeup of the school, thereby removing any opportunity that the students results will signal educators that something is amiss. Thus, it is most difficult to identify ad correct the situations that contribute to the student inequity.

…Policy makers should be alerted to these important differences, not have them hidden.

To read the reports in their entirety visit http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/sas-and-wakes-achievement-gap

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