Eagan: City kids take fall in charter school limitation battle

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Eagan: City kids take fall in charter school
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By: Margery Eagan
In “Waiting for Superman,” the famous documentary about charter schools, hundreds of parents and kids
wait, rapt, in a packed auditorium. They’re hoping to hear their names in a lottery and be among the chosen
few to escape bad district schools for better charters.
In the real­life lottery yesterday at the City on a Hill charter in Roxbury, there were just 100 openings for 940
applicants. But not a single parent, and only one applicant, showed up.
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