Does anyone know what the process is to get released from the school district you are in? I really want Emily to go to the school district that we are not in (only 2 in town) and I'm wondering what the process is to get her released from the district we are in. Any info would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!! THANKS!!!!
I know that here in Florida there is a form you get from the school district, but I don't know how long the process takes. If you can get an address, from someone in that desired county then you can switch her right away.
We had to do that with my son, he was in a horrible situation in the school he was assigned to and I found a wonderful charter school in the district where we used to live. The good thing was that we still own the old house, so we are using that as his address. It was the best thing that could happen, his new school has made a world of difference.
In Florida arn't you free to choose your school no matter where you live? I know in SC you really can't. I know I definantly have to get released from our district, then I can apply to the other district and pay tuition (about ,000 per year so I'm told). THat's all the info I have though. I don't care about the tuition, I think it would be cheaper than me having to sell my house and move in the long run. I really LOVE my house and dont' want to move, plus we have a neighbor who has a little girl who is only 3 months younger than Emily and they play every single day over the summer, so I really would hate to take her away from her "best friend". So I've decided to see what I can do about maybe getting her released so she can go to the other school district next year......we only have 2 school districts in our town. I just don't really know where to start or who to talk to first. The only thing I know for sure is that there is no way I would send her back to the school in our district, I would homeschool her first (which I'm really not keen on doing, lol)! Your right though, the school can make all the difference!!! Thanks for replying!I don't know about the school choice issues. However, if you want to cross-district your special ed child, that decision has to be made by the IEP Team and your school has to negotiate the placement with the other school district. School choice, which is something that is open to all kids in SOME states, is driven by NCLB rules. You should probably to to your state ed website and type "school choice" in the search engine. If you have it in your state, all the rules will come up in the search list somewhere.
Thanks for the info Tzoya. I'm 99% sure we don't have "school choice" but I will research is to make certain. I may go by the school district today and talk to them. I know they won't "want" to release me. They have practically been begging me to bring Emily back since I pulled her out. They say they can provide everything for her, but they can't even treat her right. I don't understand why they think I should give them another chance when they treated her so bad when she was there. If they would have treated her decent then she would still be there. Anyway, thanks for the info, I appreciate it.Well I know where I live in Florida - we have zones...you can pick the school (by ranking in order of prefer.) but you have to stay in the zone unless you want to transport your child to /from and they must approve it...it was a pain, but I did that for 1 school year. The 1 ESE prek class in our zone was the one that the teacher hit Payne so we went out of our zone to a different one. Where I lived in NC and in OH where you lived determined the school you went to. For California you can request an out of district transfer. For changing schools in the same district it is a inner district transfer. You basically get the district super to sign for out of district transfer. Where I live it is pretty easy. We have one school in our town, K-8th and no special ed services. The next town is 5mi down the road and a lot of the kids from our town have out of district transfers. The high school age kids get it automatically. They have no real issues since a lot of kids from the next district transfer in(attracted by the old school house charm and small class sizes). Now I know this sounds like I live in the middle of nowhere-ville, but we are only 25min from San Jose, ca and 40 min from SF. So we have a ton of services available. In WI we have school choice. You can apply to any school in the state, and if they have room, you will be accepted. You must provide transportation. There have been some disagreements about spec ed kids though because many parents want certain districts and then those districts get too many spec ed kids. I haven't really kept up on that though. We actually just moved to a district we liked. For cross-districting in special education (this is different from school choice), the home district pays for the tuition to the other district PLUS pays for all transportation costs. No other district has to ACCEPT cross-districting special ed students, but your district has to pay if that's the only way your child can get a free appropriate public education.As I understand it, according to IDEA 2004, if your school is Title I for 2 years in a row, you can request a school change. Our happens to be Title I, so I am looking more into options available.
Tzoya, thanks for pointing out the difference between cross-districting in special ed vs. school choice.
Mary