Newsweek falls for MCPS exaggeration

Newsweek: Five Minority School Districts In Running for Broad Prize

The low-income districts are finalists for the $2 million Broad Prize for making achievement gains.

By Zach Miners

Posted April 1, 2010

...An enrollment uptick of nearly 15,000 students since 2002 has rocked the district hard: Weast says...

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Actual MCPS enrollment history since 2001. Actual enrollment has gone up and down in the range of 3,000 students, not 15,000 students as stated by Newsweek.

2001 - 136,832

2002 - 138,832

2003 - 138,891

2004 - 139,203

2005 - 139,337

2006 - 137,798

2007 - 137,745

2008 - 139,237

2009 - 141,777