Breaking: TDSB error excludes racialized, disabled and LGBTQ students from specialty school lottery
An administrative error by the Toronto District School Board has led racialized, LGBTQ and disabled students to be excluded from a lottery for spaces in 17 high-demand alternative elementary schools.
The rest of the spaces were supposed to be doled out by a lottery of all the applicants who hadn’t yet received a spot, but only those who did not identify as being part of the priority groups were actually included in the lottery,The board confirmed the error to the Star on Wednesday afternoon. The email to parents explained that two separate wait-lists — one for self-identified members of priority groups and another for other applicants — were created as part of the selection process. The two lists should have been combined to allocate the remaining 75 per cent of spaces. They weren’t, the board said, attributing the mistake to the “third-party vendor.”, according to the board’s email.
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