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Judging by the lack of hard numbers and some statistical fuckery they’re doing - no.

> Within two years of this policy, 94% of eligible students are taking these classes.

Preselection.

Additionally, about half of the entire student body took the advanced class.

Considering the fact that the advanced class is Algebra I, I’d wager that just being on the right half of the bell curve would be sufficient to pass. Half of the student population = the right half of the bell curve.

Additionally, I didn’t see whether they were doing individual tutoring, which would have an impact on the results.



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