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Educational Equity, Traverse City’s Economically Disadvantaged Kids & TCAPS’ 2023/24 Annual Education Report
Our 2023/24 annual education report was made public earlier this month on mischooldata.org. It’s a 133-page beast that includes educator qualifications, student assessment, and accountability data. Here are a few takeaways about educational equity and our economically disadvantaged kids: 3rd Grade Reading Proficiency (Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress – M-STEP) 3rd Grade Math Proficiency…
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50% of Traverse City’s opportunity 3rd graders are not proficient in reading
50% (229)* of our at-risk opportunity 3rd graders (452)** are not proficient in reading. Are we doing everything we can to help our kids who are furthest from opportunity succeed? Solutions We (our community) can do a better job of helping all of our kids succeed by: - Leveraging best practice policies to close the…
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Opportunity: 42% of Traverse City’s 3rd graders are not proficient in reading
42% of our 3rd graders are not proficient in reading*. On a state level, the gap between economically challenged kids and those who are not is around 30 percentage points (I haven’t seen TCAPS data on this but I expect similar challenges here). Student achievement equity is a critical issue Our recent study sessions on…
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