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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the points of that Twitter posting that stood out to me is that at risk kids are far less likely to enter the lottery at all (more than 40% of all kids are at risk, but way less than 40% of lottery applicants. That confirms what I've thought about charter schools not taking their "fair share" of the most difficult to educate students, and so any comparison of outcomes isn't fair. It also suggests that providing access to quality schools for at risk kids has to be done outside the lottery system.[/quote]

I suppose it also suggests that at-risk students are underrepresented at Pk3 and Pk4 -- since they'd need to use the lottery to get there. Which is really frustrating since that is presumably who would benefit from it the most.

In the April 2018 Common Lottery board minutes (posted in another thread) they said 2018 had the highest level of applicants from Ward 8 (yes, I know that isn't where ALL the at-risk kids are). Kang also wanted MSDC to outline what outreach had been done specifically to homeless families. [/quote]

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