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Previous Article For Context Responses From DHHS, Dr. Stoddard, And Others I wanted to thank Dr. Earl Stoddard, DHHS, Councilmember Friedson and County Executive Elrich for responding to our questions today. Here are some of the responses which acknowledge and attempt to explain the discrepancies. Issue With Counting Alternate CareContinue Reading

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Executive Summary The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) requires standardized tests to measure proficiency in English Language Arts (ELA) and Math. MCPS has a diverse community of students; there are over 120 languages spoken by the more than 26,000 students enrolled in the ESOL program. The top 5 languagesContinue Reading

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Executive Summary The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) requires standardized tests to measure proficiency in ELA. Data for MCPS Grade 3 ELA scores in 2018, 2019, and 2021 were analyzed to answer 3 questions: What is the percent of proficient students at each school by year? What is theContinue Reading

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I’ve gotten a lot of questions about if Montgomery County’s rapid drop in positive Covid cases are actually representative of what is happening on the ground. Some have questioned if the case dropping is due to an increase in availability of rapid tests. But I’m going to explain how thatContinue Reading

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UPDATE: After writing this I realized that there was an issue with my methodology. The percent difference was not normalized based on the average. I fixed the calculations and came up with a new chart which I added extra details Updated Analysis Montgomery County looks even better in this chartContinue Reading

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Over the past few weeks, we keep seeing that our County’s number of positives per day keeps increasing and I’m sure many are wondering what that means and what the current detailed stats (as of 11/08/2020) reflect for Moco. When this page first started we were doing daily analysis ofContinue Reading