Public Transfer Is Still Not Choice
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Written by Neil Mellen
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Friday, 18 January 2008 18:04 |
Late in 2007, State Superintendent of Education Jim Rex released details of a proposed public school transfer program (later pre-filed as H 4391). Like the failed public transfer proposal he petitioned for last session (H 3124), this new bill offers parents nothing which existing state and federal law do not already mandate. More importantly, this proposal would create a complex system of overlapping local authorities, all of which have the ability to prevent transfers in and out of their districts. Sadly, students in the low-income and under-performing districts those who have the most to gain from the mechanisms of choice are the least likely to be granted entrance into neighboring schools through the proposal.
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