Losing Ground

PISA

The Graduation GapChance of Earning a Four Year

College Degree by Age 24

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SAT Score (Out of 1,600)

Bottom Income Quartile Top Income Quartile

Austin’s Achievement Gap

Only 6% of students

who are low-income in

Austin earn a college

degree

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“National Epicenter of Aspiration”

“Crescent of Inequality”

IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS • EXECUTIVE COUNCIL • MARCH 17, 2014

How do we prepare our students for college?

AP Human Geo (9th Grade):

Describe three political or cultural consequences of superimposed boundaries in Africa that are evidence of the legacy of colonialism.”

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AP Participation and Achievement

Texas

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Region 1 (RGV)

Region 20 (San Antonio)

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IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS • EXECUTIVE COUNCIL • MARCH 17, 2014

How do we prepare our students for college?

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“Crescent of Inequality”

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IDEA Rundberg

IDEA Allan

IDEA Bluff Springs

IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS • EXECUTIVE COUNCIL • MARCH 17, 2014

Changing the NationWhen a student goes to college, pursues a dream, and begins to build a future it changes a family, a community, an entire state and ultimately- student by student- our nation.

Q&A

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IDEA

National

Getting Better AND Bigger

20.9ACT

38% Tier 1 and 2

Projections for Class of 2016 as of 4.20.2016

25%AP Scholars

2016

2015 23% Tier 1 and 2

15%AP Scholars

20.2ACT

19.8ACT

2014 13%AP Scholars

20% Tier 1 and 2