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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How would neighborhood preference really help more than just having a single charter school application?  With a single application, parents can decide for themselves whether they value the commute or the program better.  At this point, they can't do that, they just have to take what they can get, and that is a real problem.  But, what makes you think that it wouldn't work itself out for the most part if the lottery included a ranking element?[/quote]
I'm posting about neighborhood preference because the Council studied it and made a recommendation. Would other approaches be even better? Could be. But I don't hear about decision-makers recommending any.[/quote]

But they did!  They also studied having a single lottery and recommended implementation.  My question is whether, for those who still support the neighborhood preference in addition to the single lottery, the single lottery would actually accomplish most of the goals that are also sought by the neighborhood preference supporters.[/quote]

NP here-- the single lottery approach would seem to accomplish the goal, but I was under the impression that charter schools would fight against a single lottery because it would infringe on their independent process.  I think it would be great and I hope charters do decide to support a single charter application.  It could be done so that each child gets, for example, 10 points to award.  If there are no particular schools he has his mind set upon, he can choose to designate one point to each of ten different schools.  But if there is really only one school (within his neighborhood, for example) that he wants, he can award all ten to that one school and thereby have a much greater likelihood of getting in to the school.  I'm not a charter school parent, but if there were a system like this, I would be much more supportive and interested in considering charter school for my kids.  [/quote]

That sounds incredibly complicated and likely to lead to results where some children are shut out.  Why don't they just rank them by order of preference?[/quote]

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