This Long-Neglected Law Can Help Parents Get Their Kids Out of Violent Schools
On Wednesday, the Department of Education published a letter reminding states of a little-known school choice provision that allows students attending dangerous public schools to enroll in another public school or charter school in their district.
The provision, called the Unsafe School Choice Option, was originally passed as part of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act and was continued under the 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act. The law allows students attending a school deemed “persistently dangerous,” as well as students who were victims of violent crimes at school, to transfer out and into another school in their district. However, the law has gone largely unenforced.
In all, just eight states had ever designated a school as persistently dangerous, according to a 2019 analysis from education news outlet The 74. Of those eight states, only New Yor
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