Friday, September 08, 2000
New magnet schools sign-up plan
One-stop system is to avoid frenzy of old way
By Andrea Tortora
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Parents who want to sign their children up for one of Cincinnati's 12 magnet school programs can start doing so in October.
The district will use a new sign-up plan that allows parents to register their children at the magnet school they want to attend.
This new procedure replaces the mad dash of years past — when parents rushed to registration sites to snag available spaces.
Of the district's 44,292 students, about 14,000 attend magnet schools. The magnet schools were created in the 1970s as a desegregation tool.
In February, the district announced it would change the controversial sign-up process that critics said penalized parents who lacked the means to scramble to locations announced over the radio.
The new plan was presented Thursday.
“This is one stop, instead of in the past when you visited the school on one day and then had to stand in line on another,” committee chairwoman Sally Warner said.
Registration dates will be:
• Oct. 16-20: Enrollment of students who will receive “automatic” admission, such as those in elementary schools that feed to a magnet high school.
• Oct. 23 to Nov. 3: Enrollment of siblings and Schiel Primary School for Arts Enrichment students.
• Nov. 13: Enrollment at all other magnet schools.
• Feb. 1: Schools can enroll students who do not live in their home quadrant or boundary.
District officials encourage its magnet schools to enroll students by June 30.
Students will be awarded a space in the programs on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parents will go to the school and fill out an application form that will be stamped with the date and time of their visit.
If space is available, the student will be immediately enrolled. If there is no space, the child will be placed on a waiting list.
In either case, the parent will receive a letter stating their child's status in the school's program.
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