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Under the No Child Left Behind Act's
"Unsafe School Choice Option," states were
required to develop a system to report
numbers of crimes and violent incidents in
schools. One of the most important
protections in the new law is that
individual students who are victims of
school violent crimes, as well as kids
who attend schools deemed "persistently
dangerous," must be offered a transfer to
a safe school if one exists in their
district.
But NYSED's violence grading system
counts the sexual molestation of disabled
students too impaired to give consent as
less of a crime than the very same sexual
molestation of a nondisabled students,
which means that disabled students are not
offered the transfer to a safe school.
NYSED has also illegally waived the
reporting requirements for BOCES, D. 75
schools, and the two State-operated
schools, which effectively denies parents
the information they need to keep their
children safe and specifically means that
schools that have high violence rates are
never even deemed "persistently
dangerous."
To find out more about this issue, and
what the Coalition is doing, READ MORE...
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