Public Schools Choice and Supplemental Educational Services
OSPI submitted its formal waiver for the relief from No Child Left Behind to the U.S. Department of Education on February 29, 2012.
If granted, this waiver would:
- Give Washington state flexibility from the requirement for school districts to identify or take improvement actions for schools identified for improvement, corrective action, or restructuring.
- Eliminate Public School Choice (PSC) as a mandate.
- Eliminate SES as a mandate.
- Eliminate the 20 percent district Title I, Part A set aside to fund PSC and SES.
- Eliminate the 10 percent set aside for professional development for schools.
If the waiver is granted, there will be no application process for SES vendors.
If the waiver is not granted, OSPI will open the application process for SES vendors for the 2012–13 school year.
If you have questions about this process, please contact
Gayle Pauley at (360) 725-6100 or
Reginald Reid at (360) 725-6168.
When schools do not meet state targets for improving the achievement of
all students, parents need to have options, including the option to send
their child to another school. Title I, Part A of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left
Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), responds to that need by giving parents of
students enrolled in Title I schools that have been identified for school
improvement, corrective action, restructuring (because they have not met
state achievement targets) the opportunity to transfer their children to a
public school that has not been so identified.
For more information, download
Public School Choice Guidance (PDF)
from Ed.gov.
Supplementary Educational Services are additional academic instruction designed to increase the academic achievement of students in schools in the second year of improvement, corrective action, or restructuring.
SES are available to students who are:
- not meeting OSPI standards in reading and/or math
AND
- from low-income families.
These services, which are in addition to instruction provided during the school day, may include academic assistance such as tutoring, remediation and other supplemental academic enrichment services that are consistent with the content and instruction used by the local educational agency (LEA) and are aligned with the state’s academic content and achievement standards.
SES must be high quality, research-based, and specifically designed to increase student academic achievement.
For more information, download
SES Guidance.
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