The research team accounted for factors as diverse as parental income, whether parents had a history
of mental ill health, parental education, the
number of siblings and birth weight
among others.
If the total
number of students who are eligible to attend and apply to a charter school and who reside in the city or town in which the charter school is located or are
siblings of students already attending said charter school, is greater than the
number of spaces available, an admissions lottery, including all eligible students applying, shall be held to fill all
of the spaces in that school from
among the students.