One-way ticket
As you read in today's paper, the number of students taking advantage of federal transfers has more than doubled for 2005-06. In all, 532 students are transferring.
These students are able to transfer because 1. they attend schools in low-income neighborhoods and 2. these schools failed to meet federal Adequate Yearly Progress standards for two years in a row.
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Bruce,
Didn't you leave out one other important fact? These schools were Title I schools that received federal funds to assist in the education of students at these schools. I saw no mention in your story of this fact. I don't believe that all low-income neighborhood schools necessarily receive Title I funds, so that difference should be made clear for all readers. Shouldn't you make this distinction clear that students don't get the right to transfer unless their school received Title I funds. You will recall that the Board removed Title I designation from four high schools this year to avoid the inconvenience of allowing studnets at those schools the right to transfer, knowing that they wouldn't make AYP's this year.
Posted on August 10, 2005 6:14 AM
FYI from Doug Clark's blog:
".. a terrific event planned in High Point. It's a reception for all the principals of public schools in that city, sponsored by High Point City Council, the Guilford Education Alliance, High Point Chamber of Commerce and a dozen other organizations. It's scheduled for Aug. 22 at the Roy Culler Center, 600 North Hamilton St., 5:30-7:30 p.m."
Posted on August 10, 2005 10:48 AM
Title I funds are given to schools with large numbers of poor kids. The list of schools that must offer sanctions is in the story.
Posted on August 10, 2005 11:03 AM
What's really sad is that many of these transfers are taking place at schools that are already over crowded and have no place to put these students. My son's elementary school is more than 250 students above capacity and now we stand to get more than 40 transfers. We did not make AYP last year.. or the year before but because we are not title 1 we are being used as an opt-out school. We are at maximum capacity with NO ASSISTANTS. (Thanks Dr. Grier!) Students go to lunch at 10:00 and the last class leave the lunchroom at 2:15... when school lets out at 2:30. So the board's argument about class size falls on deaf ears... We need to starting funding new schools and play catch up for all the years we neglected to build. That's the only way to even begin to fix the problem. By the way, the elementary school I am talking about.. has more students in it than the middle schools in the redistricting story in today's paper.
Posted on August 11, 2005 9:50 AM