They still are not able to accept every student who applies who meets the baseline. Students also apply who don’t end up meeting the baseline.
Statistics haven’t been published regarding this cohort of students. However, students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds are doing well overall at this school in statistics provided by the state. Published lists of college acceptances for the school as a whole look much the same as in the past.
In most contexts, suggesting that people from “different racial backgrounds” have varying levels of intrinsic ability (how else is “starting line” to be interpreted?) would be considered racist.
If that’s the opinion the VA Secretary of Education is expressing then no wonder this school board is getting themselves into trouble with the courts.
So someone else could write it, unless it’s done in a proctored situation. Same as college application essays.
I believe they started proctoring the SIS in the 2012-2013 cycle, for the reasons you state. They continued proctoring the SPS described above (SPS replaced SIS) in the recent cycle. Their reasons for the change to require proctoring when filling out application short answers was stated as:
“Eliminate direct assistance applicants might be receiving in writing SIS responses, which might have been placing underrepresented students at a disadvantage”
Perhaps Common App can learn something from this?
So what is TJ going to do for this coming year? Did it actually administer tests and gather other information under the old system? Is it going to use the new standards but just use one pool of students and not the 1.5% from each middle school?
TJ requested a stay of current system pending appeal. It depends whether their request is approved.
Please don’t feed the troII. Closing temporarily to clean.
I reopened. I deleted the troII’s posts because they served no purpose other than sparking contentious debate - which is what troIIs do. And she succeeded. Any post that took the bait was also deleted. Fruit of the poisoned tree and all that.
Please do not flag this post simply because you disagree with my decision.
This article just came up in my news feed and I thought it was topical and relevant.
However, Lowell High School in San Francisco has a fairly typical set of course offerings from a college prep perspective: Departments | SFUSD
The curricular differences between Lowell and other SFUSD high schools are likely much smaller than the differences between TJHSST and other high schools that students would otherwise attend.
Change is underway at Lowell, via the budget equalization process. Per the article:
“Between system-wide cuts and the forfeited A.P. funds, he told me, Lowell would lose $3.6 million, dropping its per-pupil funding to the bottom of the district. It would lose between twenty-one and twenty-eight educators, about twenty per cent of its faculty…”
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The Appeals Court ruled 2-1 this week to stay the Judge’s decision for the kids currently applying for admission.
The decision was made because the Court believes the District will prevail on the merits and will suffer harm without a stay.
“ With Roberts’ action, the school board has until Wednesday to present its response. The chief justice would then decide on the application, which includes referring the case to the full court.”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/group-fighting-school-admissions-policy-scotus-83971303
“ In a response filed Wednesday in the Supreme Court, the school board insisted that its admissions policy is “race-neutral” and said the 4th Circuit was “entirely within its authority” to suspend the lower court ruling while the board appeals it.
The board said the admissions policy does not set any racial quotas, goals or targets, and is administered in a “race-blind manner,” with all applications anonymized so evaluators do not know the race of any individual applicant.
“The district court simply slapped the pejorative ‘racial balancing’ label on a race-neutral measure to improve geographic, socioeconomic and racial diversity, without any basis in the record,” the board said in its response.”
The Supreme Court refused to lift the stay so TJ will use their new process for the entering class of 2026.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/08/02/montgomery-county-magnet-school-admissions/
Lawsuit dismissed by Federal judge.