Schools+with+high+poverty+level+negatively+impacts+student+performance

= = =By YOAV GONEN= =//Published by the New York Post//= =//9/14/11//= = = = = =The performance of city students on state tests is not just impacted by their poverty level – but remarkably, by the poverty level of their schools as well, according to a wide-ranging analysis of city schools data.= = The report by the Independent Budget Office found that students in grades 3 to 8 from low-income families scored 16 percentage points higher on reading tests in 2010 if they attended a low-poverty school rather than a high-poverty school. = =FULL CITY SCHOOLS DATA REPORT= = The difference for students from high-income families who attended a low-poverty school rather than a high-poverty school was even greater – of 31 percentage points. = = In fact, the effects of a school’s poverty level were so great that poor students in a low-poverty school scored 4 percentage points higher on reading tests last year than did students from high-income families attending high-poverty schools. = =Similar links were seen between poverty and math test performance.= =“These are the kinds of things we’re going to go deeper into,” said Doug Turetsky, chief of staff at the IBO. “Hopefully we’re providing information that parents and policy-makers think is useful and that helps shape, or at least contributes to, the debate on how to best run the city schools.”= =The report, which stemmed from a data-sharing agreement between the city’s Department of Education and the IBO that was written into the 2009 mayoral control renewal law, also found a strong link between attendance and test scores.= =Both attendance and poverty level also greatly impacted Regents test performance in high school.= =The report was released this morning at the same time as the IBO posted a host of data about city schools online.= = Read more: [|http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/schools_with_high_poverty_level_kmxSHcserpIyC4XqjsFiML#ixzz1YAZoDrcM] =

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