School Choice Is Luck of Draw -- City Enrollment Lottery to Decide Dibs On Transfer
The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › February 27, 2009
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Standing in line through the night to get a prime registration number - a rite of spring in Memphis for thousands of city school parents - ends this year in a giant open enrollment lottery the district will conduct online.
Siblings of current students and children transferring from failing schools get first dibs as long as their requests are filed between March 11-27.See the full content of this document
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School Choice Is Luck of Draw -- City Enrollment Lottery to Decide Dibs On Transfer
The rest of the openings will be filled in a computerized raffle.
"Parents are going to be able to avoid having to line up and camp out. And it gi...See the full content of this document
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