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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would make me ill if my Ward 5 charter opted in for this.  It defeats the purpose of a charter being open to all .  Will there be a hearing/rule making/public comment on this, because I'm ready to weigh in.[/quote]

Yes. You should![/quote]

It's only proposed that 15% of the seats are given to kids with a neighborhood priority. So no neighborhood is going to "overwhelm" any charter school (unless they do so by random lottery luck). Not to mention that there will likely only be a small group of families who qualify for the neighborhood preference anyway.

I was skeptical of this idea (neighborhood preference for charters) when I first heard about it thinking that then families with means will simply buy a house next to whatever charter they want and it will further the economic segregation in our school system. But this program is so limited, I don't think this will have much effect on a student body at large. It will just be a boon to families who live super close to a charter they like but haven't had the lottery luck to get into.[/quote]

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