Poor performance in Texas schools leads to choice for students

The ranks of low-rated public schools swelled again this year under Texas’ education choice law, giving hundreds of thousands of students at the state’s worst campuses the right to transfer to a better school. State education officials attributed the large increase to tougher performance standards used to rate schools in recent years, particularly in science and math. Officials did not say exactly how many students will have the transfer option, but as many as 600,000 students may be affected at 924 campuses. Read about it in the Dallas Morning News website.