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If more students apply to a charter school than there is space available, the charter school will hold a lottery to determine which students will be admitted. Enrollment preference is given to siblings of students who currently attend the school and to students living in the city or town where the charter school is located. Once a student is admitted to a charter school, he or she is entitled to attend in subsequent years without reapplying.
Some Commonwealth charter schools are designated as regional schools and serve several cities or towns. For regional charter schools, students living in any one of the cities or towns in the region receive enrollment preference. A few charter schools are designated as Horace Mann charter schools. These schools, although still independent, have closer ties to the local school district. Generally, transportation is provided to charter school students only if they live in the school district in which the charter school is located. If your child lives in a school district outside of the one in which the charter school is located, you are responsible for getting your child to and from the charter school.
The Board of Education must decide every five years whether to renew the school's charter. In addition, the Board may revoke a charter before the end of the five years if the school fails to meet certain requirements of its charter.
If your child is attending a charter school and the school's charter is revoked or not renewed, your child will need to transfer back to his or her home district or select another option for enrolling outside of the home district. For information about a particular charter school, or to apply for admission, contact the school directly. Most schools conduct their enrollment lotteries during January or February, so early applications are advised. For general information about the charter school program, contact the Department's charter school office.
In grades , students may choose to participate in vocational technical education programs, such as automotive technology, culinary arts, or design and visual communications, in preparation for a future career. Students in these programs take academic courses in addition to their technical courses and must meet the same requirements for high school graduation that all high school students must meet, including passing the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System or "MCAS" tests.
These vocational technical education programs are approved by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and are sometimes referred to as "Chapter approved" programs. Several school districts offer vocational technical education programs within the district itself, either in the district's regular high school or in a separate vocational technical high school.
Most cities and towns, however, choose to offer vocational technical education programs by joining a regional vocational school district. Each regional vocational technical school district operates a regional vocational technical high school that serves a number of cities and towns in its geographic area and offers a range of vocational technical education programs and academic courses. If your city or town belongs to a regional vocational school district, your child is eligible to apply for admission for grades Vocational technical high schools have admissions criteria and may have enrollment limits.
Transportation is provided for students from the member towns. If you are interested, contact the vocational technical high school to which your town belongs. To see if your town belongs to a regional vocational high school, look up your town on the school profile page on the Department's website. If your child would like to attend a vocational technical education program other than the one in your home district or in the regional vocational district to which your town belongs, you have two choices.
First, your child may apply to another vocational technical high school under the inter-district school choice program, described earlier, if that high school accepts school choice students. Students attending another vocational technical high school under the school choice program can elect any vocational technical program offered by that school. Second, if your city or town does not offer the particular vocational technical education program in which your child is interested, either in its own high school or in the regional vocational technical high school to which your city or town belongs, your child may apply for admission, under the Chapter 74 non-resident option, to any vocational technical high school or other high school in the state that offers the program.
To enroll through this option, your child must meet the school's admissions criteria. Some vocational technical high schools will admit out-of-district students only through the Chapter 74 non-resident option and will not admit out-of-district students through the inter-district school choice program. If your child is admitted through the Chapter 74 non-resident option, transportation will be provided.
The Chapter 74 non-resident option is described in greater detail in the program guidelines. Out-of-district students enrolled through Chapter 74 may continue at the school only as long as they continue to be enrolled in the particular vocational technical program to which they were admitted. If a student wants to switch to a different program and that vocational technical education program is offered by your city or town, the student will have to return to the home district or seek admission to the regional vocational technical high school to which the city or town belongs.
The state has four vocational technical high schools that offer specialized agricultural programs in addition to other vocational technical education programs. The Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical High School is located in Danvers and has seventeen member cities and towns and accepts non-resident students from other communities.
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It gives enrollment preference to Northampton residents and also enrolls many students from nearby towns under the non-resident option in Chapter 74 described earlier. If your child is interested in any of these four schools, contact the school directly for additional information and enrollment applications.
If you are interested in having your child attend school in another district under this program and that district is accepting students, you should contact the superintendent's office in the district in which you want to enroll your child. Parents may also choose to educate their children in non-public settings through private schools or home schooling. When I left Jr high to go to Fontbonne neither one of these subjects were on my radar. The atmosphere reminds me of a college campus more than a high school at times. Brooke Charter School 3 District.
In addition to these four schools, other high schools offer programs in agriculture. Please check with your local high school and regional vocational technical high school to learn about their offerings. The Metco program was established in to provide opportunities for minority students in Boston to attend school in one of the suburban school districts surrounding Boston. Today the Metco program serves about 3, Boston and Springfield students in grades K who attend school in more than thirty suburban districts.
I was taught to think critically, argue reasonably, and to speak confidently. Montrose is more than just an educational institution. It is a place for your daughters to grow- to become stronger, more confident, and kinder. Upon graduation, they will be ready for the world- armed with sturdy values and a strong sense of self to guide them. I continue to lend my support to Montrose. Diversity is the best thing about it.
Students who attend CATS are intersting and ambitious young people. I had an amazing time making friends. Some of the teachers are truly great, they are ready to go above and beyond to help students achieve their goals. On the other hand, there are some teachers who are really unkind and unhelpful.
The principle and the student affairs departnment, as well as most of other saff including dorm parents is horrific. They are people who are having personal issues and are not healthy for school environment. Of course, there are exceptions. I personaly had a great dorm parent, and I wish other students can get the same experience. My son is a sophomore at Xaverian and absolutely loves it.
He is learning great study skills, enjoys his classes, his teachers, the resource centers, and has made many good friends. He plays 2 sports and the coaches and teams have added to his great experience. As a parent I have many opportunities to be involved as a volunteer. The school communicates frequently via parent coffee hours, newsletters, and the on-line portal. This school is worth every penny for us- we are so happy he made the choice to attend!
To this day, I am so thankful for the education I received from Ursuline. It was not easy and the courses are challenging, which I loved. They taught us various studying techniques along the way and encouraged us to work hard and ask questions. I learned how to be smart and ambitious before I learned how to be "pretty. All in all, Ursuline prepared me more for the real world than college did.
Fontbonne was a great experience. The students, teachers and diversity are the highlights. The students are prepared to go to college when they graduate but also encouraged to be leaders.
I started out as a cheerleader and after two years became president of the drama club and head of the diversity club. I won awards in both these categories at the end of the year. When I left Jr high to go to Fontbonne neither one of these subjects were on my radar. My sofmore year I started showing interest to make changes or enhance these programs and the faculty and students were a great support.
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