Sentences with phrase «oversubscribed schools»

If slots in oversubscribed schools were systematically allocated to the highest - risk students, the social cost of crime would fall by an additional 27 percent relative to the actual CMS assignment mechanism.

London had the highest proportion of oversubscribed schools — almost seven in 10 (69 %)-- and one of the lowest rates of undersubscription (12 %).

It may make sense for oversubscribed schools of choice to give preferential admission to students at greatest risk of criminal activity.

For example, a simple, streamlined process that allows families to choose any school in a large urban district — and uses a fair method for allocating spaces at oversubscribed schools — could be a way to weaken the link between residential and school segregation that has plagued our school system since the end of legally mandated segregation more than 50 years ago.

We need to make sure that oversubscribed schools do more to prioritise pupils from disadvantaged homes and the Schools Adjudicator does more to prevent parents from gaming the system.»

The trust was formed in June 2016 and currently comprises one of the most oversubscribed schools in Manchester, Parrs Wood Academy — also the school attended by former shadow education secretary Lucy Powell.

David Simmonds of the Local Government Association said he wanted the government to urgently address the pressure on already oversubscribed schools.

If slots in oversubscribed schools were systematically allocated to not only low - income students, but also to students at highest risk of criminal activity, he states, «the social cost of crime would fall by an additional 27 percent» relative to the actual CMS assignment mechanism.

Although this analysis does not consider the possibility that a greater concentration of high - risk students could have adverse effects on other students, it nonetheless highlights the likely beneficial consequences of giving preference to disadvantaged students in the admissions process for oversubscribed schools.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, London had the highest proportion of oversubscribed schools (69 per cent) and one of the lowest rates of under - subscription (12 per cent).

They tens to be open to all unlike the oversubscribed schools.

I take advantage of the CMS districtwide open - enrollment school - choice plan, which until recently let students choose where they wanted to go to school and employed lotteries to admit students to oversubscribed schools.

In a study of the Promise Academy middle school in the Harlem Children's Zone, economists Will Dobbie and Roland Fryer found that attending the oversubscribed school sharply reduced the chances of teenage pregnancy (for girls) and incarceration (for boys).

The first step of the process is to assign every student a lottery number for use when seats in oversubscribed schools must be allocated at random.

The fact that it is possible that children of group members will not be denied admission to a school based on their race — because they choose an undersubscribed school or an oversubscribed school in which their race is an advantage — does not eliminate the injury claimed.

Even if the district maintains the current plan and reinstitutes the racial tiebreaker, Seattle argues, Parents Involved members will only be affected if their children seek to enroll in a Seattle public high school and choose an oversubscribed school that is integration positive — too speculative a harm to maintain standing.

Insofar as school boards offer choice, which we would expect to be a popular position for them to take, a race - blind lottery could be a fair, practical, and constitutionally acceptable way to allocate spaces in oversubscribed schools.

Oversubscribed schools choose pupils by lottery, something poignantly illustrated in the documentary film «Waiting for Superman».

Oversubscribed schools may prioritise particular postcodes, siblings of children already at the school, religious faiths and other criteria - including past or present eligibility for free school meals.

Oversubscribed schools can argue they don't have space to take on pupils excluded from neighbouring schools, following extreme behaviour.

Parents wanting to get children into an oversubscribed school might welcome the creation of more places - while those at the school might be less enthusiastic about such major changes to pupil numbers.

It shows the average cut - off distances for oversubscribed schools are 2.3 km for primary and 4.8 km for secondary.