There are a growing array of education choice options available in America such as
controlled open enrollment, charter schools, charter districts, online schools, lab schools, schools - within - schools, year - round schools, charter technical career centers, magnet schools, alternative schools, vouchers, special programs, advanced placement, dual enrollment, International Baccalaureate, early admissions, and credit by examination or demonstration of competency.
Controlled Open Enrollment allows a parent from any school district in the state to enroll his or her child in and transport his or her child to any public school, including charter schools, that has not reached capacity.
The state of Florida has one of the most robust choice systems in the country from Opportunity Scholarships, charter schools, McKay Scholarships, and
controlled open enrollment.
Districts must provide preferential treatment in
their controlled open enrollment processes to:
For more information about a district's
Controlled Open Enrollment plan, please contact the district.
Beginning with the 2017 - 18 school year, each district school board and charter school must adopt
a controlled open enrollment plan that allows a parent from any school district in the state to enroll his or her child in and transport his or her child to any public school that has not reached capacity.
In order to promote and encourage parental involvement and ensure students have access to a school that meets their needs, the Florida Legislature enacted Section 1002.31, Florida Statutes, which directs each school district to develop
a controlled open enrollment plan.
A school district or charter school may not delay eligibility or otherwise prevent a student participating in
controlled open enrollment, or a choice program, from being immediately eligible to participate in interscholastic and intrascholastic extracurricular activities.
Not exact matches
Despite making far larger test - score gains than students attending
open -
enrollment district schools, and despite the emphasis their schools place on cultivating non-cognitive skills, charter school students exhibit markedly lower average levels of self -
control as measured by student self - reports (see Figure 2).
Freed from union rules and OPSB central - office
control, the RSD was able to act on its conviction that improved performance lay in spinning off as many schools as possible and chartering them as independent institutions with
open -
enrollment admissions policies and citywide catchment areas.
St Paul — Minnesota's Democratic -
controlled Senate Finance Committee last week deleted from an omnibus education - aid bill Gov. Rudy Perpich's controversial
open -
enrollment plan, dealing a severe blow to the state's chances for a public - school choice plan.
As such, in 1985, with Republicans in
control of the legislature, Perpich recommended two school choice proposals: postsecondary
enrollment options (PSEO), to allow high school juniors and seniors to attend nonsectarian public and private colleges, and
open enrollment, to allow parents to send their children to schools anywhere in the state.