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I have sent the following letter to the Lt. Gov, Sec. of Ed Mark Murphy, and DOE PIO. And, yes, I'm hot and horrified that the
While we wait for a response, I urge you all to go ahead and try to choice your child, real or imaginary, into a Delaware charter school that exists and is open to enrollment and has been excluded from the
Dear Ms. May,
I writing in hopes that the department can answer some school choice questions.
Last night, I reviewed schoolchoicede.org, the website that appears to be created by the Data Service Center to facilitate school choice using the common application. This following statement is on the website:
SchoolChoiceDE.org provides you with a central location to submit a
Choice application for participating public School Districts and Charter
Schools in Delaware. SchoolChoiceDE.org allows you to apply to the
school of your choice, edit your existing application(s) as needed and
monitor the status of your application(s) throughout the Choice process.
View School Choice Application for a comprehensive list of participating School Districts and Charter SchoolWhen I clicked "View School Choice Application" for a "comprehensive list of participating School Districts and Charter Schools" I was surprised to learn that the charter school of my choice was not listed. In fact, there appear to be several charter schools left off of the state's website.
I will note for you that Title 14, Chapter 4 states:
§ 403. Pupil application; withdrawal.
(a) Any parent of a
school age child may apply to enroll that parent's own child in a
school or program in a receiving local
education agency by submitting a written application, on a
standard form provided by the Department of Education, to the Department
of Education or to the receiving district and to the district of
residence on or before the second Wednesday in January for
enrollment during the following school year, except that a parent
may apply to a receiving district until the first day of
the school year for enrollment in a kindergarten program during
that school year. The Department of Education shall distribute
applications to the appropriate receiving local education agency
no later than 10 working days after the application deadlines
set forth in this subsection. Receiving districts may require the
submission of information beyond that contained in the standard
form provided that it requires the submission of the same
information by the parents of children residing in the attendance
zone for the school. Notwithstanding the requirements of this
subsection, charter schools may accept applications submitted
after the second Wednesday in January.
Thus, I am compelled to ask:
1. Why does the website state that the list contained therein is "comprehensive" when it clearly is not?
2. Why is the state engineering the choice process by directing parents to only some charter schools and not all?
3. How will the state compensate the parents who have already completed their applications, blind to the schools left off the website?
4. How will the state compensate those charters who will experience decreased applications b/c the state the left them off the website?
5. How many choice applications have been processed by the website to date?
6. Why were some charter schools disenfranchised from the school choice process?
7. Does the state realize that this website implies that the charters not listed on it are not open for enrollment next year?
Sincerely,
Elizabeth A. Scheinberg
Tax Payer
What did DOE say:
-----Original Message-----
From: May Alison
To: montagnebeau
Sent: Thu, Nov 7, 2013 11:28 am
Subject: RE: School Choice
Thank you for reaching out and providing us the
opportunity to clarify this for
you.
The charter schools listed on the DSC website are only
the charters that are using the DSC services.
The SchoolChoiceDE.org website states:
SchoolChoiceDE.org provides you with a central
location to submit a Choice application for
participating public School Districts and Charter
Schools in Delaware. SchoolChoiceDE.org allows you to
apply to the school of your choice, edit your existing
application(s) as needed and monitor the status of your
application(s) throughout the Choice process.
View School Choice Application for a comprehensive
list of participating School Districts and Charter Schools.
This web site is not the State's website. The State's
website is
http://www.doe.k12.de.us/infosuites/schools/choice.shtml
Alison
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