Few Capo Parents Exercise Right to Transfer Kids Out of Underperforming Schools

Few Capo parents are taking advantage of a state law that allows them to request transfers to get their children out of the state’s lowest performing schools, according to a report by the Orange County Register Sunday.

The 2010 Open Enrollment Act allows parents to move their children to any school with better test scores if their child attends one of the state’s 1,000 lowest ranking schools, according to the newspaper. The catch is that the new school has to have openings, and parents are on the hook for transportation.

Capo parents aren’t alone. The Register reports that few parents throughout the county have taken advantage of the law, likely because they don’t know about it. The Capistrano Unified School District schools that fall in the state’s bottom 1,000 include Crown Valley, Richard Henry Dana, Las Palmas, Viejo, San Juan, Marblehead and Kinoshita elementary schools, according to the Orange County Register.

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