While parents do engage in school choice, the system of using proximity to determine admission means that some households have negligible chance of admission to the best schools, explain Simon Burgess, Ellen Greaves and Anna Vignoles (schoolsweek.co.uk)
Unlike most charter schools in the United States where attendance areas are widely dispersed, 13 Georgia charter schools have priority attendance zones, a feature that gives families a greater chance of admission. (myajc.com)
The Charter School shall admit all students who wish to attend the Charter School, and who submit a timely application; unless the Charter School receives a greater number of applications than there are spaces for students, in which case each application will be given equal chance of admission through a public random drawing process. (magnoliapublicschools.org)