Denise, As I understand the No Child Left Behind Act, there are situations where a child has the right to elect another school. In addition to performance, another is if they suffer an act of bullying.
Usually it is to another school within a district. So if a child wants to switch from Bangs Avenue School to Thurgood Marshall, he can. The problem arises when there is no other school in the district, like the Middle School or High School. Under NCLB Act, Asbury Park is supposed to have an inter-district agreement with another town. Those are voluntary though, so you can not force the other district to enter one. Anyone care to wager that our Board of Education has not even inquired of another district to make such an arrangement? Anyone? When there is no such inter-district agreement, the child is supposed to be offered other alternatives, such as intensive tutoring and home-schooling. As to your other question, I believe your child can audition for Red Bank Regional's music program. If you live in AP, I don't thing your school has administrators to help the child like the other schools do. Oakdorf mention that Red Bank Regional is not great school. It isn't if you look at the school report card. --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Denise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If a child attends a Title I school that has been designated by the > state to be in need of improvement or unsafe, parents can choose to > send the child to another public school. Districts must let parents > know each year if their child is eligible to transfer to another > school, and districts must give parents at least two transfer schools > to choose from. Additionally districts must pay for students' > transportation costs, giving priority to low-income, low-achieving > students if there are not enough funds available to pay for all > students. > > At the last board meeting when a parent asked about sending their > child to another school based on the No child left behind act. > > As quoted by the commissioner > "The Dept. of Education can not force other school district to take > on students from Asbury Park it has to be by choice of the other > school district" > > So if what your saying about the students from Avon and the various > other towns in the AP district is true. If my child was in AP High > school and I wanted to send my child to Red Bank Regional I should > have no problem or once again is it a set criteria? > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/lOt0.A/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/Y2tolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
