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Facts about School Choice in Massachusetts
- Public school systems must offer School Choice
unless the school committee votes against it by June 1st each year
- There is no cost to the receiving school
system or community
- The sending school system pays the
receiving school system’s per pupil tuition
- The selection process is random and free
from any type of discrimination
- There is no application criteria and no
child can be refused entry if there is room in the grade; all children,
including special needs, are eligible
- Some school systems use a First Come, First
Served method, with postmark being the indicating factor
- Selection to a grade is based on available
seats in the grade
- Selection priority is given to siblings of
Choice students already enrolled
- Application and selection may be made
throughout the year depending on availability of seats per grade
- Once the student is accepted, the student
will remain part of that system until graduation; no need to reapply
- The receiving school can not rescind its
acceptance of a Choice student, even if in years to come, the receiving school
faces overcrowding. A Choice student cannot be sent back to the community of
residence.
- The sending school system can not refuse a
student from participating in School Choice
- The sending school system can not refuse to
pay the receiving school’s tuition
- A Choice family is under no obligation to
move to receiving school system
- A Choice student can not be denied
participation in any school-related activities
- Transportation is the responsibility of the
Choice participant, however, the participants need only to get to the nearest
receiving school’s bus stop
Click here to access our district school choice page
Information obtained from the Massachusetts School
Choice Law of 1991, Massachusetts Department of Education School Choice
information of 1995, and the 1993 Education Reform Law. This information is
current as of March 2002.
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