Sentences with phrase «assigned neighborhood public school»

Parents Will Risk Jail Time For Their Children's Education December 7, 2015 by Brett Kittredge Two Washington D.C. police officers are the latest to face jail time for committing residency fraud in an effort to ensure their children receive a quality education that was not available in their assigned neighborhood public school.

Not exact matches

In Novato, parents are assigned a neighborhood school but can also apply for a transfer to one of the seven other public elementary schools in town.

A spokesperson for Dayton Public explained that because the district doesn't necessarily assign children to a neighborhood school and families are allowed to choose where they send their children, parents have to register in order to obtain a school assignment that would allow them to qualify for a voucher.

Differ from other neighborhood public schools in that students are not assigned to them based on address.

Public education traditionally assigns children to schools based on where they live, and children live in vastly different neighborhoods.

Because of the entrenched practice of assigning students to public schools based on their neighborhood of residence, urban public schools tend to concentrate highly disadvantaged students in schools characterized by low levels of safety and achievement.

This could take many forms, but is usually where a state or district agency uses an algorithm to assign parents to schools (whether charter, magnet, or their traditional neighborhood public school) based on their preference rankings.

Still, in the 2015 - 16 school year, 51 % of CPS students (students enrolled in Chicago public schools) opted out of their assigned neighborhood schools; among high school students specifically, this number jumps to 73 % (Hing and Richards, 2016).