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The DME needs to clarify the city-wide lottery component.  Since everyone has a fair shot at admittance into a citywide school, does it make sense that the city-wide lotteries will reflect the city's natural balance of at-risk/higher SES families that the set-aside is attempting to address? They may actually be limiting access by capping the at-risk population. [/quote]

I agree that the DME needs to clarify city-wide lottery component.  What makes you think that the DME means that the at risk population will be limited to 10% at city-wide schools?  The list of preference categories does not make it clear that the way the wait list will be generated is with only 10% of students at risk going to the top.  This isn't clear for non-city-wide schools also.  It reads to me like the boundary schools that qualify have to set aside 10% of seats and the preference order goes IB/sib, IB, OOB/sib, OOB/at risk, OOB/proximity, OOB.  Therefore, this is the order that the spots are filled and the wait list is generated.  So, they have to set aside AT LEAST 10% of seats for at risk, but they also have to fill the seats in the preference order.  Therefore, all the at risk kids fill the seats first, even if there are more than 10% of seats available, and then everyone else gets in line in their lottery order.  At a citywide school, there is no IB population, so the seats fill OOB/sib, OOB at risk, OOB proximity, OOB.  There is no language that indicates that the OOB/at risk will be LIMITED to 10%. If there are enough students who fit that criteria in the city (and let's face it, there are), a school would have to fill all of its OOB seats with at risk kids first. There is unlikely to be any seats left at city-wide schools (or any other schools for that matter) for OOB/proximity, and OOB.

I am sort of surprised that this isn't of more concern to people in this thread since a lot of people bank on getting in somewhere either OOB or to a city-wide school, both of which are pretty much off the table unless you are OOB/at risk.

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People are still digesting the proposal. The other factor is that not every "at-risk" kid will have the interest or ability to commute across town everyday, so there will be fewer "at risk" seats taken than people might imagine.

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