{"id":1594,"date":"2011-12-07T16:06:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T21:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2011-12-11T13:28:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T18:28:25","slug":"draft-2-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/2011\/12\/07\/draft-2-district\/","title":{"rendered":"School Choice &#8211;&gt; DISTRICT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hartfordschools.org\/index.php\">DISTRICT[1. \u201cHartford Public Schools\u201d, 2011, http:\/\/www.hartfordschools.org\/index.php.]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the Hartford Choice Parent Brochure, the mission of Hartford choice is to offer \u201cparents an opportunity to choose and apply to a variety of theme-based neighborhood Hartford schools for their children.\u201d The purpose of this process is to improve Hartford schools and student achievement. \u00a0In addition, \u201cThe Hartford Choice plan will provide options for families based on student needs, higher education, and career interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hartford Public Schools operate on an application process, even when a family remains within the Hartford District. This means that Hartford students are not automatically assigned to their \u201cneighborhood school.\u201d This intra-district approach works with all Hartford Public Schools, excluding Magnet and Charter Schools. Students starting at the Pre-K or Kindergarten level or entering Middle School or High School must undergo the choice application process. Students in this position select four schools and are guaranteed one of their four choices; this system is often referred to as a \u201clottery.\u201d Hartford Public schools produced a parent<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hartfordschools.org\/documents\/HartfordandRegionalFairflyer.pdf\"> Choice Brochure[2. \u201cHartford and Regional All-School City-wide Fairs\u201d (Hartford Public Schools, n.d.), http:\/\/www.hartfordschools.org\/documents\/HartfordandRegionalFairflyer.pdf.]<\/a> and conduct parent fairs in attempt to make this process easier and help parents choose the right school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DISTRICT[1. \u201cHartford Public Schools\u201d, 2011, http:\/\/www.hartfordschools.org\/index.php.] According to the Hartford Choice Parent Brochure, the mission of Hartford choice is to offer \u201cparents an opportunity to choose and apply to a variety of theme-based neighborhood Hartford schools for their children.\u201d The purpose of this process is to improve Hartford schools and student achievement. \u00a0In addition, \u201cThe &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/2011\/12\/07\/draft-2-district\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">School Choice &#8211;&gt; DISTRICT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}