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New Report On NCLB School Choice and Tutoring
04/04/08
04:56:55 am, Categories: Announcements [A] The Department of Education has just issued a new report on public school choice and after-school tutoring under NCLB.
The take-home message is that more and more students are exercising their options to transfer to another school or to enroll in after-school tutoring.
The number who chose to transfer more than doubled. The number enrolled in after-school programs increased over 500%.
As a percentage of Title I students (or even those eligible to enroll) these numbers are still small. However, there are now sizable and growing constituencies of poor and minority families for each of these programs, which means that any efforts by Congress to scale them back may meet with significant protest.
If more districts actually made an effort to make these programs work, they might be really dangerous.
Swift & Change Able Choice and Tutoring Index
(with apologies to Harper’s)
Number of students in 2003-04 who received supplemental school services (after-school tutoring): 233,000
Number of students in 2002-03 who received supplemental school services (after-school tutoring): 42,000
Number of students who used the Title I school choice option in 2004-05: 45,000
Number of students who used the Title I school choice option in 2003-04: 18,000
Percent of the districts required to offer school choice to elementary students who reported doing so: 70
Percent of districts required to offer choice at the middle school level that reported doing so: 20
Percent of districts required to offer choice at the high school level that reported doing so: 17
Percent of the districts required to offer Title I school choice that actually notified parents of this: 62
Percent of districts required to offer supplemental educational services that reported that they notified parents: 97
Percent of districts required to offer school choice that say they notified parents of eligible students before the beginning of the school year: 29
Percent of parents eligible to use school choice who said they had not been notified about this option: 53
Percent of parents eligible to choose supplemental services who said they had not been notified: 27
Percent of SES service providers that are private: 76
Total spending on Title I supplemental educational services in 2003-04: $192 million
Out of every 10 parents surveyed who had children enrolled, number who said they were satisfied with SES: 9
Out of every 10 parents surveyed who had children enrolled, number who said they were satisfied with choice: 8
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