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[quote=Anonymous]At-risk set asides haven't been implemented in any DCPS or DC charter school.

The MSDC staff ran an experiment to see what an at-risk preference would do to lottery results. The report is here http://www.myschooldc.org/sites/default/files/dc/sites/myschooldc/page/MSDC%20At-Risk%20Preference%20in%20a%20Unified%20Lottery%204.26.2018_Final.pdf

The abstract is pasted below (full study is 27 pages)

A unified lottery for traditional and public charter schools in Washington, DC serves over 20,000
applicants per year, and can be used as a tool to improve lottery outcomes for applicants that are
at-risk of academic failure. The City Council of the District of Columbia defined a group of students
as “at-risk” in 2014.

The utility of the lottery preference for at-risk students to diversify school populations is limited because the lottery only places new students, and the impact can increase
or decrease with corresponding policy decisions. Seats available at high-performing schools are a
finite resource and those schools typically fill in the unified lottery. Giving an advantage to one
group disadvantages another group’s lottery results at these schools. [b]The strongest preference
contemplated in this analysis, giving at-risk students the top priority out of all applicant groups
including siblings, would improve lottery outcomes for 8.2% of the 7,432 applicants identified as
at-risk.[/b] As the preference weakens, a smaller percentage of at-risk applicants will have improved
lottery outcomes. Overall outcomes will depend on the strength of the preference and a local
education agency’s decision-making to give a preference that will displace other applicants
without that advantage.[/quote]

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