Daily News | A Philly charter school manipulated its lottery to keep kids out, a top administrator says
Each of the 800-plus Philadelphia families who applied for seats at a nationally recognized charter school thought their children had a fair shot at a spot in this year’s upcoming freshman class. Pennsylvania law guarantees it.A top executive at Franklin Towne Charter High School said this year’s lottery was fixed, with students from certain zip codes shut out, and others eliminated because they — or their older siblings — exhibited academic or behavioral problems.
It is astronomically unlikely — with odds of 1,296 trillion — that no students would be selected from those zip codes if Franklin Towne conducted a random lottery as is required, an Inquirer analysis found. The secretary mentioned Venditti wanted to cut out students from Christopher Columbus Charter School, in South Philadelphia, because their special-education students had come with a mandate that Franklin Towne had to pay for their for school-bus transportation.
The lottery proceeded as Venditti had orchestrated it. But it wasn’t until Feb. 3 that Field got a clearer picture of who had been excluded, when he saw a file with the lottery results.None of the 10 students who applied from Christopher Columbus Charter were selected. And when Field examined the demographic profiles of the 205 students who had been admitted and the 608 who weren’t, something stood out, he said.
A random lottery would very likely have chosen at least 21 students from those 17 zip codes, according to the analysis. Field said he wasn’t aware of previous tampering with the lottery. “In hindsight, it would seem like we didn’t” join the centralized process, he said, “because then we can’t do this.”By Feb. 8, Field decided he had to come forward. He reached out to Joe Garbarino, the Franklin Towne board president. He sent Garbarino an email with a timeline and an analysis of the file he had seen.
The board minutes say Venditti recently had surgery and could no longer perform his CEO duties, and that Garbarino asked the board to present him with a retirement package, with Venditti entitled to two weeks salary for every year worked.
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