If a low-income school does not meet academic standards under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law, then parents are permitted to send their child to another school within the same school district.
The problem is that the district gets to designate the transfer options. I have heard complaints from parents that the school transfer options are usually not the ones that best meet their family’s needs. Thus, relatively few parents opt out of their failing school.
To make matters worse, the US Department of Education recently granted a waiver that allows North Carolina public school districts to delay the transfer option and implement a tutoring program in its place. So, parents in some school districts will have to wait a year to be offered stinky transfer options.
