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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A skim noted that this was a rumor and then someone said they were told no public lottery. If this had really happened I am sure the general public would have heard about the PCSB investigating and/or reprimanding the school. [/quote]

You're funny!  Hmmm, wonder why they went ahead and joined the public lottery?  Do you really think they didn't get heat from PCSB?  But it is absolute fact that at least in 2012 and 2013 it was NOT public.  I think they may have done a public one earlier this year for the current school year.  Can anyone confirm whether the one held in early 2014 was public or not?[/quote]

I am the poster you are quoting.  I personally attended the lottery in 2014 and it was open to anyone who wanted to attend.  As a previous poster wrote, the kids that are in the upper grade at CMI are not the kids you would envision a school cherry picking.  They appear to be great kids, but are not who you would assume a school would cherry pick.  I did extensive research on all schools I applied to, looking at the annual reports and DCPCSB assessments and I never came across any information regarding this failure to conduct a public lottery.  If it had occurred AND if it was not permissible, it would be documented.[/quote]

[b]What kind of kids would they not want to cherry pick?[/b][/quote]

Loaded question.  A previous poster described her child and noted that her child is the example of one they would not want to cherry pick.

I want to put an end to the CMI suspect lottery discussion.

The law in question, which became effective in 2007, does not require charter schools to have public lotteries:

DC Code Sec 38-1802.06 (c) Random selection. -- If there are more applications to enroll in a public charter school from students who are residents of the District of Columbia than there are spaces available, students shall be admitted using a random selection process, except that a preference in admission may be given to an applicant who is a sibling of a student already attending or selected for admission to the public charter school in which the applicant is seeking enrollment, or an applicant who is a child of a member of the public charter school's founding board, so long as enrollment of founders' children is limited to no more than 10% of the school's total enrollment or to 20 students, whichever is less.

The District's Regulations, which govern how the law is to be implemented, also do not require a public lottery:

D.C. Mun. Regs. Subt. 5-E, § 915.3: If a public charter school has more applications to enroll in the school from students who are residents of the District of Columbia than there are available spaces, students shall be admitted using a random selection process. [b]The documentation and results of the random selection process and a list of students on the waiting list as a result of such shall be available for review by the Board[/b]. The public charter school may give priority to the siblings of students enrolled in the school.

So, based on the law and reg, CMI was not required to have a public lottery, nor did it have to publish the wait list, etc. for public consumption.  Consequently if CMI indeed did NOT have a public lottery in 2012 and 2013 and did NOT publish the lists, they broke no law because they were not required to do so.  There is therefore no legal basis to assert that the administration did something illegal or suspect.  You can say you don't like the policy and would have done things differently (if in fact they did not have the public lottery in 2012 or 2013), but you cannot say they did something illegal. [/quote]

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