Lane Wright  and his wife bought a home in a racially and economically diverse neighborhood in Tallahassee, he writes on Education Post. It’s zoned for low-performing schools, but their five-year-old son won the lottery for the top charter school in the city, the School of Arts and Sciences. His kids are black, like nearly everyone at the zoned school, but they’re also middle class, with two college-educated parents. On the one hand, finding a way to not attend our zoned scho

Charters and magnet schools dominate the top of the 2017 U.S. News Best High Schools rankings. BASIS Scottsdale, a charter school in Arizona, is the No. 1 public high school in the U.S. and four other Arizona BASIS schools made the top 10, including BASIS Tucson North, which took second, followed by BASIS Oro Valley at No 3. BASIS Scottsdale, an Arizona charter, is the top public high school in the country, according to U.S. News. The rankings are based on test scores, Advanc