Denying Transportation Could Place Transfer Students in Academic Bind
Baltimore County Public Schools is considering cutting transportation for a program that moves students out of struggling schools.
Maryland’s waiver from a federal education mandate could put some Baltimore County students into what their parents call unfit schools. The Baltimore County Public Schools system is debating whether or not to provide transportation for students partaking in the Title I transfer option, federal funding for which was cut when the state opted out of the No Child Left Behind Act in May. Title I schools receive additional federal funding to reduce the achievement gap because of high populations of low-income and at-risk students. "This is something we’ll need to figure out quickly," said Charles Herndon, a school system spokesman. The act afforded students at Title I schools across the country that failed to meet Adequate Yearly Progress for …
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Lily
11:14 am on Tuesday, January 22, 2013
@Spring Heeled Jack The title 1 transfer option was mandated by the federal government if federal funds where taken. MD took federal funds. So any school that failed to meet AYP for three consecutive years had to offer all of it's students special transfer options to schools selected by BCPS that met certain criteria. What's amazing to me is how few students actually took advantage of that given … more ›