Jul 26, 2016 12:00:00 AM
Open Enrollment allows a student to attend school tuition-free in a district other than the district where his or her parents reside.But the fine print allows each school district to decide whether to take students from any district, only adjacent districts, or none. The majority of districts in the state do participate, but one specific group is conspicuously absent from the list: the suburban districts surrounding the state’s big, high-poverty cities.
Zahava Stadler is project director of the Education Funding Equity Initiative at New America and has researched and written on school finance reform for Education Trust and EdBuild.
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