School boundary initiative likely would boost test scores in seven affected buildings

Mike Sherry:

If a school boundary initiative in western Independence and Sugar Creek succeeds, test scores in the seven contested buildings may indeed increase right off the bat.

But that won’t necessarily demonstrate that the Independence School District is superior to the Kansas City School District.

A Kansas City Star analysis of test-score data suggests that Independence would generally inherit more of the higher-performing students from the seven buildings, leaving more of the tougher educational challenges to the Kansas

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 7, 2007 1:50 AM
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