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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS has been lying since October. 
The Program Deign Team (who MCPS "deigns" to share their designs to) was notified that the [b]criteria programs will be lottery based.[/b]

The non-lottery version, announced after parent resistance in October, was a lie to get parents off MCPS's back

Equity and Opportunity in MCPS are cancelled.

Ironically, MCPS middle scholers are studying Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"  this week. [/quote]

I am on the design team.  We were told that a lottery for criteria-based magnets was something they were considering, but had not decided yet

(If so, it would not be pure lottery--it would be a "once you meet the criteria for entrance, you get selected by lottery rather than all the candidates being ranked and picking the top ones" type lottery.  Somewhat like CES or MS except I think the idea is that the bar would be higher and there would be enough spots for most kids who meet the criteria with only a small number left out, which is very much not the case in ES/MS.)

Peter Ostrander seems very involved in the work on this at this point, so if anyone knows how he feels about lottery versus ranked selection, that might give some hints how this is going to go (although I'm sure he's not the only one involved in making the decision.)[/quote]

Is Mr O explicit about what the criteria would be like for the new criteria-based programs? Right now the bar is incredibly low, for W schools, at least 80% of the student body meets the bars. So lottery would be a joke and the program as it’s not targeted to the supposed student body.[/quote]

No, that hasn't been discussed yet.  I think it is supposed to be on the agenda for one of our meetings in a few weeks.

But if you're talking about the ES and MS criteria, isn't it by definition only roughly the top 15% of the school?  Which I think is still too low but is far from 80%.[/quote]

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