Friday, February 01, 2019

This "good news" is a disgrace and a lie!---This is child abuse!!-----Muskegon County schools get good and bad news on poverty-minded report card | mlive.com

Muskegon County schools get good and bad news on poverty-minded report card | mlive.com
MUSKEGON, MI – Muskegon High School students are among the top 25 percent statewide academically when their economic status is taken into consideration.
Muskegon County high school's were ranked in the 2018 Michigan Public High School Context and Performance Report Card, which rates schools' performances on standardized tests while
controlling for the economic status of students. In this context, Muskegon High School was top-ranked in the county, but Muskegon Heights, which has the biggest economic disadvantage, was ranked at the bottom.That’s the good news for Muskegon County in a report issued this month that considers poverty rates when ranking high school test performances.
...Muskegon outperformed nearly three-quarters of schools throughout the state when economic status was considered in the 2018 Michigan Public High School Context and Performance (CAP) Report Card, which was released by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy this month.
CAP uses free lunch eligibility statistics and standardized test scores of 11th-graders to rank schools. 
The study first derives an expectation of each school’s performance based on free lunch eligibility, and then compares test scores to that expectation to assign a CAP score, rank and letter grade..."
Read on!
The REAL STORY of TOTAL FAILURE!!!!!
Muskegon schools only--2017-18 M-STEP SAT 4-Year Demographics Results
Muskegon Public Schools-- All Grades--  All Students
Math--10.9 % Proficient.
English Language Arts -- 17.9% Proficient

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