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Not the poster you are responding to, but how do you equate their restricted entry years to "taking public funding without serving the public"? This is an extremely offensive charge about a Tier 1 charter that has done an exemplary job of educating students. Even their split lottery was an attempt to get more native Spanish speakers into the program, which not only helped the quality of the program but also helped get more low-income kids into the school. It is no coincidence that the FARMS rate has been falling since they got rid of the dual lottery. (And I say that a parent who applied under the dual lottery knowing that our chances as a native English family were much lower.)

Again, I don't understand why so many people want to bitch at LAMB for doing things their way when they are obviously meeting the challenge of educating their students effectively and expanding to accommodate as many kids as they can.[/quote]

NP here.  Imagine if our neighborhood school restricted entry after a certain year.  You'd say that's unfair, and not serving the public, right?  But it would seriously improve things for the students at the school.  All the kids would pick up the school culture / educational benefits from an early age...

It's just not the right policy answer for a public school.

That's also why test-in specialty schools need to be centrally managed.  You can't just start that up all over the place and still claim to have a public system.[/quote]
Perhaps you don't understand the charter school system. Each school is, in fact, its own school district. Having an individual model is the whole point. [/quote]

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