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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As I said, I was just curious. Not really planning to send dd there--just the waitlist number gave me pause. That doesn't make me a troll. I've found precious little concrete information about any of the desirable charters... except that they are desirable. We would be going in the middle grades, and our wait list number from round two has moved 4 more slots closer. We moved to DC a week ago--forgive me for not doing more due diligence.

So it's a bilingual crunchy school. The kids wear t-shirts. What kind of math do they do? Is there science? Is there a library? I'm still a little confused about how the charters rank their test scores vs. the regular publics. Is there testing at all? [/quote]

I think you might need to start with general education about the system here instead of getting bogged down in discussions of particular schools in which you have no current shot of entering.  MV won't get to the second round of lottery results until it goes through the first round, which has hundreds of people listed for some grades.  The chances that it gets to round two for any grade is so minute that you shouldn't consider it.

There is a lot of information about each of the schools.  I would try the websites and open houses.  Formal comparitive testing doesn't occur until third grade so new charters won't have the same sort of data that older schools do.  Plus, as people explained, there are additional factors with a new school, so it is hard to go on test scores alone.  Good luck.  I hope you end up in somewhere good, but if not, please prepare early for next years lottery.[/quote]

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