What does the law mean when it says that the district shall “give priority to the lowest achieving children from low-income families”?
The district must give all students in a school identified for improvement the opportunity to transfer to another public school. In implementing this option to transfer, however, there may be circumstances in which the district needs to give priority to the lowest achieving children from low-income families. For example, if not all students can attend their first choice of schools, a district would give first priority in assigning spaces to the low-achieving low-income students. If a district does not have sufficient funding to provide transportation to all students who wish to transfer, it would apply this priority in determining which students can receive transportation.
