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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Instead of limiting access, the lottery needs to be reformed to require families to rank their preferences so that families have a better shot at getting a spot at a charter they REALLY want (for for whatever reason--immersion, logistics, long-term solution--whatever are the priorities for that family). Please note that I am NOT saying we should limit the number of schools a family can apply to--just that there should be some ranking involved so that a family will get a little more weight for wanting one shrter the most and basically not extra widhgt for applying to a charter you don't care anything about and is 8 miles away. [/quote]

What needs to be done is one lottery, charter and DCPS, where each person ranks as many schools as they are interested in. You get your number, they go down your list in order until they find a school with a space, and you have to attend that school. If they get to the bottom of the list and there hasn't been a school with space, you go to your in-boundary school. Implicitly, your in-boundary school would be the last one on your list. That would end any gamesmanship, there's no incentive to put anything other than your true preference.  It would also greatly cut down on the September shuffle.  A nice side-benefit would be that there would be a treasure-trove of information about the relative desirability of every school in the system.

I disagree that there should be any kind of weighting system where people can increase their chances by giving a school a higher weighting. This would tilt the system even more unfairly toward those with good in-boundary choices. Imagine a system where everyone gets a certain number of points to spread across their choices. Someone with an acceptable IB school could put all the points on a single charter. Someone who doesn't have an acceptable IB choice needs to spread their points to guarantee they get in somewhere.[/quote]

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