For some, no way out of F-rated campuses

Those who are in favor of parental choice, but only within the existing system, need to think hard about the widespread dilemma highlighted in this article -- namely, that there aren't enough seats at decent schools to accommodate the students who are stuck in failing schools and want to transfer.

More than 700 students  want to flee Orange County's two F-rated high schools. But  school officials, in a move likely to anger parents, have decided only 400 can  leave.

The district denied 330 transfer requests because many of its  other high schools are too crowded to take more students or did not earn the  necessary state grades, officials said.

Here's an idea: for parents whose kids are stuck in chronically failing schools: give them the right to transfer their kids to decent schools; and for parents whose districts cannot provide that: give them vouchers.  That would sure light a fire under a lot of districts to fix their schools and provide transfer options!


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For some, no way out of F-rated campuses
Can students flee a failing high school? The state says yes; Orange says not all of them.
Leslie Postal
Orlando Sentinel Staff Writer
August 3, 2007
http://www.topix.net/content/trb/2007/08/for-some-no-way-out-of-f-rated-campuses

More than 700 students want to flee Orange County's two F-rated high schools. But school officials, in a move likely to anger parents, have decided only 400 can leave.