We welcome other approaches and even creative use of existing provisions of state and federal law that allow for some flexibility in tailoring
charter school admissions processes to benefit students with disabilities.
In addition, officials in these three states reported prohibiting disability - related questions
on charter school admission forms, in part to protect students with disabilities» access.
Abdulkadiroglu et al. (2011) and Angrist, Pathak, and Walters (2013) found similar estimates of the impact of a year in a Boston area charter school whether they
compared charter school admission lottery winners and losers or whether they compared charter attendees to regular public school students with similar observed characteristics.
CCSA released the following response to the ACLU and Public Advocates» recent statement spreading misinformation about
California charter school admission policies and practices.
The charter school admissions process is itself race - blind: Schools that are too popular conduct lotteries between their applicants.
Maybe, the reasoning goes, the high performing charter school networks fared better with disadvantaged students because of «self selection,» where only the most motivated parents enter
the charter school admission lotteries.
Lottery Losers Study In 2009, labor economists from MIT and Harvard studied Boston charter schools, including the Match Schools, by comparing the test results of their students with the test results of students who 1) generally entered
charter school admission lotteries, 2) generally entered charter school admissions lotteries but did not win a seat in a lottery, and thus returned to the Boston Public Schools system (i.e. «lottery losers»).
This language reminded me of the rhetoric of «creaming» that is often brought up with respect to
charter school admissions.