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Governance committee backs annual reset of choice-program waitlists, tighter lottery oversight
Summary
The ASD governance committee reviewed a proposed administrative regulation to reset school choice waitlists annually, bar prescreening of applicants, adopt a centralized monitoring process and provide an annual lottery report to the board; administrators will return with a revised regulation next month.
The ASD School Board Governance Committee on Sept. 25 reviewed an administrative regulation that would reset school choice lottery waitlists each year and tighten monitoring of lottery practices, and asked administration to return with a revised draft next month. Robin Harris, senior director of Choice Schools, told the committee the change is timed to the district’s migration to a new lottery system called Scribbles and is intended to improve fairness for families.
Harris said, “So, this revised AR just refreshes our lottery each year so that families have equal…
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