Automatic Enrollment Increases Enrollment
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In Texas:
Latino and Black students in advanced math courses grew when Texas districts stopped relying on recommendations and automatically enrolled qualifying students.
Under a law signed by Gov. Greg Abbott in May, school districts and open-enrollment charter schools must automatically enroll in an advanced math course sixth graders who score in the top 40% of the math portion of the state standardized test known as STAAR.
In the Dallas school system, the policy has improved the share of Latino sixth graders enrolled in honors math from one-third to almost 60% ...
For Black sixth graders, the share increased from about 17% to 43%, and for white students, gains were even higher, increasing from half to about 82%.Now we wait and see how these students fare in standardized tests in the next few years.
