Friday, April 30, 2010

School choice

school choice hearing--must take place annually
school choice gaining us about $500,000 a year
FY11 budget plans on spending $2 million collected under school choice
Passes unanimously
Note that this means that kids can apply to go outside the city, as well as kids from outside choose to come into the city.

1 comment:

Neil and Joan said...

Yes, kids can, and do, leave the district to go to the towns. Dollars for these students follow them to their new district. The WOrcester school committee has no say in this. The school choice vote that you take is to accept studentsinto the district.