Sentences with phrase «use a weighted lottery»

An applicant for future CSP competitions that wishes to use a weighted lottery should provide the pertinent information about its proposed lottery in its grant application.

a) When seeking approval to use weighted lotteries under the first circumstance in E-3, the use of weighted lotteries is necessary to comply with Federal or State law; or

The second strategy we propose is to allow public charter schools and magnet schools to use weighted lotteries to create or maintain socioeconomic diversity.

Requests for approval to use weighted lotteries should be submitted to the Department and include the following:

He will use a weighted lottery system to ensure representative admissions.

While many of the nation's public schools remain stubbornly segregated by race and income, some charter schools and districts are starting to experiment with using weighted lotteries to increase diversity.

Currently, only a handful of schools use weighted lotteries for this purpose, according to research by The Century Foundation.

State charter - school laws, likewise, could set aside a certain proportion of charter - school funds — say, 25 percent — for schools that are diverse by design, using a weighted lottery to ensure that school choice promotes socioeconomic diversity.

Now David Hespe, the acting commissioner of education, says that all charter schools can use weighted lotteries to enroll more at - risk kids.

Not exact matches

But Wednesday morning, the U.S. Department of Education took an executive action that I support strongly, issuing new guidance for the Public Charter Schools Program that will allow charters to use «weighted lotteries» without forfeiting their chance to receive federal start - up funds.

4) Information concerning how the use of a weighted lottery for a permitted purpose is within the scope and objectives of the approved project; and

An existing grantee that wishes to use, or allow charter schools receiving CSP funds to use, weighted lotteries under the circumstances in E-3 must seek approval from the Department to do so by amending its grant application.

The U.S. Department of Education issued new guidance for the Public Charter Schools Program that will allow charters to use «weighted lotteries» without forfeiting their chance to receive federal start - up funds.

-- Use a weighted admission lottery, to make it more likely that these underrepresented students are admitted to charter schools.

Although no school can use race as a factor in admissions, many charters can and do offer a weighted lottery that offers preference to economically disadvantaged students, English language learners, and students with learning disabilities.

,» and in 2014, this department listed the formal conditions in which weighted lotteries can be used.

The Department of Education defines weighted lotteries as «lotteries that give preference to one set of students over another,» and in 2014, this department listed the formal conditions in which weighted lotteries can be used.

One named condition was «To give slightly better chances for admission to all or a subset of educationally disadvantaged students if state law permits the use of such weighted lotteries,» (Baum, 2015).

In The Village Voice RC Baker reports that John O'Connor uses «haphazard research» and personal obsession (body weight, lottery numbers, weather reports) as inspiration for his drawings, some of which are almost seven feet high.