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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are there parents interested in suing MCPS on this lottery based selection? Any proposal on how we can organize and pool our resources to take a legal action. [/quote]

There was a lawsuit based upon Asian discrimination and Magnet acceptances.

https://pacificlegal.org/case/afef-v-montgomery-county-public-schools/
https://casetext.com/case/assn-for-educ-fairness-v-montgomery-cnty-bd-of-educ

The MCPS solution was to make the Middle School Magnet system a "lottery" system

Now no one can prove its not random, unless and insider squeals.   Although MCPS never defined the "local norming" piece of the "lottery"?[/quote]

The timeline doesn't match. It says the complaint was filled September 1. Lottery happened earlier in 2021.
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The lottery was to head off the lawsuit. There's no reason they could not have given the Cogat or used MAP or other measures of ranking to select the students during the first year of the pandemic and definitely the second year everyone was in' school so no reason not to give the Cogat. They also could have made the cut off more narrow. Instead they made it large enough to get the demographic mix they wanted but if they had made it 95th percentile the demographics would probably have looked similar to past years. I think this should be easy to prove with basic public information requests but I do think discovery of internal emails and depositions would yield a lot more information. Isn't the lawsuit proceeding so aren't they in this discovery phase at this point?[/quote]

For Pete's sake, the lottery wasn't about the law suit. MCPS is still in a posture where law suit may not get dismissed because the pool for the lottery isn't transparent.  Discovery in the suit could  reveal a race-based advantage/disadvantage in the pool selection.  (Particularly with respect to the local norming)  Now the Supreme Court is likely to overturn using race for admissions, so we'll have to see what they say.[/quote]

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