State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act Volume VII Title I School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services

This report presents trends on the implementation of Title I parental choice options from the National Longitudinal Study of No Child Left Behind and the Study of State Implementation of Accountability and Teacher Quality Under No Child Left Behind. In 2006-2007, 6.9 million students were eligible for Title I public school choice, a fourfold increase since 2002-2003, and more than 3.3 million were eligible for Title I supplemental educational services, a nearly sixfold increase. However, participation rates remained low at 1 percent for the Title I public school choice option and 17 percent for supplemental educational services. Public school choice was constrained at the middle and high school levels because large numbers of school districts have only one middle school and one high school.