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All student assignments will be made according to the district’s “Controlled Choice” Student Assignment Plan. According to this plan, children will be assigned in order of the following fairness preferences:
- Programmatic priority Placements (for example, special education children are placed into special classes at schools with those respective programs).
- Siblings with Proximity Placement
- Sibling Preference Placements
- Proximity Preference Placements*
- Lottery: If the fairness preferences listed above are not sufficient to determine placements, assignments shall be based on a random lottery.
*Proximity Preference is given to students residing within the student proximity zone (one mile from home to school). |
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Every effort will be made to accommodate parents’ preferences within the system of priorities, educational seating capacity, and the district’s racial fairness guidelines. Parents/guardians of students who are not assigned to a first choice school may request that their child be placed on a waiting list for that school by completing a “Wait List Request Form” available at the Parent Information Center. This request will grant the Parent Information Center the right to automatically transfer the child to the requested school once a space becomes available and the child is chosen. The Parent Information Center will inform parents when the transfer to the first choice school occurs. Assignments from the waiting list will be made in accordance with the “Controlled Choice” fairness preferences indicated. If parents become satisfied with their child’s assigned school and decide that they are no longer interested in transferring their child, they must submit a written request to the Parent Information Center asking to remove the child’s name from the waiting list.
The waiting list for all schools will expire on the 10th day of school. If a parent is dissatisfied with the student assignment and does not wish to continue at that school during the next school year, a request for a voluntary transfer can be make by contacting the Parent Information Center in May. Transfer will not be accepted after the expiration date. All transfer requests will be processed the first week of July. Any transfers that were not granted will remain on the Waiting List until space becomes available up to and including the 10th day of school.
The Parent Information Center will grant no more than one transfer request per student per year.
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According to the school district’s “Controlled Choice” Student Assignment Plan:
“Parents who are dissatisfied with an assignment or transfer, after exhausting all the options of the student assignment policy or having grounds to believe that the policy was not followed, may file a written appeal to the Student Assignment Appeals Board. The Appeals Board consists of five members, including administrators and parent and community representatives appointed by the superintendent. The Board will review each case referred to it and will approve or deny the request, in writing, giving reasons for the decision. A copy will be sent to the parent(s) and the Student Assignment Officer, and the final decision for the Appeals Board will be implemented."
Parents/Guardians who feel the student assignment was inconsistent with the district’s Controlled Choice Student Assignment Policy may file an appeal by writing a letter to the Director of the Parent Information Center:
Thong Phamduy
Parent Information Center
781-397-1568
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