Under Virginia’s approved federal waiver from certain requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 2001, also known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), sanctions connected with the “Adequate Yearly Progress” of schools receiving Title I funds are no longer required. This means new Public School Choice (PSC) transfers and Supplemental Educational Services (SES) tutoring will not be offered in FCPS beginning in 2012-13. Students who previously transferred to a new school through PSC may remain in their new school until they complete sixth grade, so long as they continue to live in the boundary area of their PSC school. Additional information on Virginia’s ESEA waiver can be found in a Virginia Department of Education June 29, 2012 press release.

Information and Statistics

For each year, the chart below shows:

• the number of schools offering SES and PSC
• the number of students who were eligible to participate in SES and PSC, based on February 28 data from the preceding school year
• the actual number of students who participated in the SES and PSC programs, including students who continued PSC participation from previous year(s)

		# Schools	# Eligible Students	# Participating Students
2007-2008	SES	5	1,885	634
	PSC	3	1,980	223
2008-2009	SES	7	2,591	1,102
	PSC	4	2,702	278
2009-2010	SES	8	2,662	1,205
	PSC	4	2,388	141
2010-2011	SES	6	1,906	961
	PSC	3	1,807	177
2011- 2012	SES	4	1,267	693
	PSC	2	867	151