Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: How to Get to the Top of the Charter Lottery

Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: How to Get to the Top of the Charter Lottery:

How to Get to the Top of the Charter Lottery

by Melissa Westbrook

While doing some research on charter law, I saw this article from the LA Weekly, entitled "Charter Schools: Getting Your Child on the List - How to cut in line and pervert the concept of public education" by Gene Maddaus that I thought worth passing along.

Apparently, at least a couple of tony LA charters had figured out how to exploit a federal guideline to pull in more of the "right" parents AND support their bottom line.

Here's the basis for the problem (and I had never heard of this before so news to