School+Choice+Process

Good morning. The information below is intended to help parents with the School Choice Process. Please be reminded that NOT ALL CHILDREN ARE ELIGIBLE.

Quibila A. Divine Office of Parent, Family, and Community Engagement 440 North Broad Street, Room 114 Philadelphia, PA 19130 215-400-6443 215-400-4048 (fax) [|qadivine@philasd.org]
 * The School District of Philadelphia**

We are in the midst of the NCLB School Choice process for placement in Fall 2009. On or around March 27, 2009, the 141 schools from which students are eligible (see attached) received NCLB School Choice materials from the Office of Printing Services via UPS. Each school received enough packets to send one packet home with each student during the week of March 30, 2009. If after reviewing the information packet a parent or guardian is interested in applying for NCLB School Choice, he or she must obtain the NCLB School Choice Request for Transfer Application (EH-35C) from the child's //current// school and return it to the //current// school. **Please note that NCLB School Choice is** //**not**// **first come, first serve. All applications must be returned to the sending school by April 23, 2009, no exceptions.** At that point the applications will be collected and ranked per NCLB guidelines for placement. 

To view the components of the NCLB School Choice information packet, please visit [|http://webgui.phila.k12.pa.us/ offices/t/title1/programs-- services/public-school-choice2] To learn more about the process, we encourage parents to attend one of the 30 parent information sessions occurring across the District during the application window. //Please note that the meeting scheduled on April 18, 2009 at Bache Martin is cancelled.// There are eight other sessions occurring across the District on that morning. Parents or guardians can attend any meeting that is convenient for them.