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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Read up on the San Francisco school lottery system. The DC system is being based on a similar lottery premise.[/quote]

Here is a summary of the SF system: http://blog.pacunion.com/san-francisco-public-school-lottery/

Sounds like people who rank a school highly are more likely to get in. From the article, it notes the lottery is held in several rounds: "The first round of school assignments go out in March, but families still have several other rounds, as well as wait lists, if they’re willing to hold out for a different school."[/quote]

Ok, I'm getting confused now. I'd. DC eliminating IB preference?[/quote]

I don't think so. You still can go to your IB school for k and above as a matter of right. I think it is more the "swap" part of the lottery to maximize too choices: http://blog.sfishome.com/san-francisco/san-francisco-public-school-lottery-explained/[/quote].

Thanks for explaining. The Wapo article is short on details, and I don't like certain aspects of San Francisco's lottery.[/quote] Much not to like. Especially for us folk from the well to do hoods with the white enclave neighborhood schools that we feel so entitled to. See recent thread on ludlow t. How dare those uppity types occupy our neighborhood school. Don't they realize it could be turned around if their kids left to make space for ours. The sf system ensures diversity in every school. If dc council had any balls they would legislate for something similar. [/quote]

It sounds like the SF system is the same as what DCPS was doing, except SF has an added preference for kids from lower-income areas of the city.  There is no reason to think that DC will have that- it is against the law for charters.  From all indications the system will be essentially the same as the existing DCPS system, with the addition of charters and more options beyond six.  You rank your preferences, the system runs lotteries for every school (with preferences for neighborhood residents, siblings, proximity and founders for charters), and as people get into schools, they drop off the lists for schools they ranked lower, which moves other people up.  You stay on the waitlist for schools you ranked higher than where you were accepted, and you are taken off the list for schools you ranked lower.  This is by far the best way to run this type of system, as it gives parents every benefit to rank schools in the actual order of their preference.  There is no way to game it.[/quote]

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