Overview

The Program Improvement School Choice (PISC) program is available for San Diego Unified School District students attending a school that has not met one or more of its identified achievement targets for at least two years in a row. In compliance with the No Child Left Behind Act, a federal law, students residing in and attending a Title I school identified as a Program Improvement (PI) school will be notified and provided an opportunity to apply to attend a designated non-program improvement school in the district, and transportation will be provided within district guidelines.

The Program Improvement School Choice (PISC) option is limited to designated schools. Please call your current school or the Enrollment Options Office at (619) 725-5672 for more specific information about your designated school choices. It is important to note that this is a year-by-year program with limited funding. When the resident school meets its Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) achievement targets two years in a row, students enrolled at a non-Program Improvement school will no longer be eligible for transportation. They may continue to attend the school until the highest grade level, but transportation will cease.

Schools Identified as Program Improvement (PI) Schools

Students who attend or are scheduled to attend one of the following schools in 2009-2010 may apply for Program Improvement School Choice:

Elementary	Middle	High School	Charter	Atypical
Adams Alcott Audubon Baker Balboa Burbank Carson Carver Edison Emerson/Bandini Encanto Garfield Horton Kimbrough Linda Vista Logan Marshall Parks (Rosa) Perkins Porter	Bell Clark Correia (7-8) CPMA Farb* Lewis Mann Marston Montgomery Pacific Beach Pershing Roosevelt Standley Taft Wangenheim Wilson	Clairemont Crawford CHAMPS Crawford MVAS Hoover Madison Morse San Diego Business San Diego Communication San Diego Arts (MVPA)	Gompers Middle King/Chavez Arts Memorial Academy O’Farrell	ALBA Garfield High* Language Academy New Dawn Twain
*School met AYP achievement targets in 2007-2008 and may exit Program Improvement in 2009-2010.

Transportation Guidelines

Transportation is provided on a year-to-year basis. Transportation for PISC students may end when:

• Student’s resident school meets its identified AYP achievement targets
• Designated receiving school becomes a Program Improvement school
• Student changes grade levels (elementary to middle or middle to high school)

If transportation is no longer provided, the student may choose to continue to attend the receiving school of choice through the highest grade level with no district-provided transportation, or the student may return to the school of residence. District transportation guidelines and rules apply to this program, as they do to other district programs with transportation.
It is important to note:

• There must be eight riders for a bus route to be established.
• Transportation is not provided for students who reside within 2.0 miles of an elementary or 2.5 miles of a secondary receiving school.
• Transportation is not provided to the school of residence.
• Bus stops for pick up and drop off are generally set up at or close to the school of residence.
• Students may be required to walk up to one mile at the elementary level and two miles at the secondary level to the bus stop.

Contact Information

Enrollment Options
4100 Normal Street, Annex 7B
San Diego, California 92103

(619) 725-5672
(619) 725-7311 – Fax
eoptions@sandi.net