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The charter schools are open to all, but people choose which school they want their children to attend. Most often, this is the one geographically closest.
There is only a lottery if the number of applicants for a particular school exceeds the available space in that school. I found this:
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The article says there are two parallel systems.
White students disproportionately attend the best charter schools, while the worst are almost exclusively populated by African American students. Activists in New Orleans joined with others in Detroit and Newark last month to file a federal civil rights complaint, alleging that the city’s best-performing schools have admissions policies that exclude African American children. Those schools are overseen by the separate Orleans Parish School Board, and they don’t participate in OneApp, the city’s centralized school enrollment lottery.
