History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
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Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Fixing Open Enrollment
- 04-01-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Although it is not as well known yet as its fraternal twin, the Parent Trigger, Open Enrollment was the other reform that the Legislature rushed into law last year to jazz up the state’s application to the Race to the Top competition. And like the Parent Trigger, it’s a fine idea whose passage in haste has created unexpected consequences that legislation this year is attempting to fix. Under Open Enrollment, students from the state’s lowest performing 1,000 schools – roughly the lowest 10 percent – have the right to transfer to a better school in any district they choose. The receiving district cannot discriminate against anyone who applies or target certain types of students for enrollment. The State Board of Education adopted emergency regulations last summer so that Open Enrollment would go into effect immediately, although this fall will be the first true test of the law. (more...)
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