Sentences with phrase «by lottery»

Some 45,000 students are on waiting lists for charter schools, which select students by lottery.

From the volunteer schools, a subset would be chosen by lottery to receive the treatments in specific grade levels and subjects.

Forty - two families have moved into the development, 40 of which where selected by lottery from 4,500 applicants vying for the affordable units.

Students assigned by lottery to see the live productions improved their knowledge of those plays by 63 percent of a standard deviation, a dramatic increase.

The hearing actually starts at 11 AM but speakers will be determined by a lottery system.

To ensure equity of access, choice schools should not be allowed to use their own admissions criteria but should be required to take all applicants or admit by lottery.

Some highlights are the lineup of live music and the free 90 - minute harbor cruises (awarded by lottery).

Where space at a charter school is limited, admission is frequently allocated by lottery - based admissions.

They are free and open to anyone; due to high demand, most schools determine student acceptance by a lottery system.

What's even worse is that only 450 units will be available for sale, and customers will be picked by a lottery system.

As in our charter schools, admissions would need to be done by lottery.

A new study examines the effects of an experiment in which some community college students received free computers and others did not by lottery.

They are free public schools open to any student, usually by lottery.

They are well funded and only available by lottery.

If the number of applicants exceeds the available capacity of the grade levels within the school, students are selected at random by lottery.

Applicants are chosen randomly by lottery, as outlined by federal law.

The thing is, why should the government allocate spectrum by lottery?

Participants attending in person were chosen to speak by lottery.

Schools will only be allowed to offer available spaces to students in numerical order as determined by the lottery.

Number of seats available vary by school, however, if we receive more applications than seats available, students are admitted by lottery.

If more students apply to attend a start - up charter school than the school can accommodate, students would be chosen by lottery.

If a district offers a full - day program, it does not serve all eligible children, as some students are selected by lottery.

We accepted students by lottery, from 48 elementary schools across the south side.

Another important difference: Seats are allocated by lottery.

And half the positions should be available by lottery - not by who's willing to pay the most.

There are more applicants than seats, so admission is done by lottery, which is fair, and the law of the land for publicly funded charter schools.

Charters are open to all students across the city, with admission by lottery if there is more demand than space available.

That is the promise of American public education — that all students will be well - educated — not just those chosen by lottery for a charter school that may not turn out to be better than the regular neighborhood school.

The purpose of admission by lottery is to ensure that enrollment is non-discriminatory.

These irreverent takes on time - honored rituals are limited to two or three guests — who will be selected by lottery on the day of the ceremony — so sign up here and maybe you'll get to kick it with Johnny amongst the serene bric - a-brac of Mr. Sach's unique mind.

OTTAWA — Coveted spots for the parent and grandparent visa program will be awarded by lottery in 2017 after the federal Liberals have scrapped the old first - come,... Read more

Typically, only a small portion of the funds raised by these lotteries ends up supporting charitable programs.

The public school serves as a lab school for the University of Florida and accepts students by lottery from 31 Florida cities.

If the schools attended by lottery winners do a better of job of teaching skills that increase students» ability to find employment, they will stay enrolled in school longer, delaying the onset of criminality through the peak period of offending behaviors.

The awarding of scholarships by lottery created a rare opportunity in educational research: a field experiment in which students were assigned randomly to both public and private schools, thus allowing me to test the effects of receiving a voucher and, more generally, to compare the performance of public and private schools.

But students accepted by lottery at charters run by the school district with unionized teachers experienced no benefit.

Unlike in Georgia, the Oklahoma program is not funded by lottery earnings but is paid for through general state monies.

... students accepted by lottery at independently operated charter schools significantly outperformed students who lost the lottery and returned to district schools.

And they said few local students would want to attend an unscreened high school, which chooses its incoming class by lottery.

High - school lottery winners attend schools that are demographically very similar to the schools attended by lottery losers, while middle - school winners attend schools that are less African American and higher income on average.

That has the advantage of ensuring that there is no bias in our estimate of treatment effects because all groups retain the treatment status they were awarded by the lottery regardless of whether their performance was cancelled for snow.

According to Ms. Hoxby's report, 94 percent of the students in the city's charter schools got there by lottery.

About 1,000 students apply by lottery for 150 spots in the freshman class at Freire Charter School's high school, where students told Cantor about their Advanced Placement classes and tutoring centers as he toured quiet hallways and classrooms.

• Require that they be open to all students, with seats filled by lottery if demand exceeds capacity.

In 1986 lotteries accounted for an average of only 3.3 percent of the total revenue raised by lottery states — far below the amount raised by income and sales taxes.

Unions also question the academic records of charter schools, accusing them of skimming the best students — an accusation disputed by charter school supporters, noting students are enrolled by lottery.

But this year, the Trump administration decided to award visas by lottery instead of the previous first - come, first - served basis.