In Flanders, an algorithm attempts to make school choice fairer
▻https://automatingsociety.algorithmwatch.org/report2020/belgium/belgium-story
In Belgium, some schools don’t have enough capacity for all students who want to go there. In the Flemish part of the country, the government introduced an algorithm to assign places in schools, in the hope of giving every student the same chances. Belgium has a long tradition of free choice of school, but in recent years this has met its limits. Some schools are more popular than others. Because class sizes are limited, this is a problem if too many parents want to enroll their children in (...)
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