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Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX)

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Byline: John Moritz and Amie Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas

Dec. 17--FORT WORTH -- Parents of students in more than 800 schools across Texas have the right to transfer their children to better-performing schools under a state accountability program, a new report from the Texas Education Agency shows. But there are likely to be few takers, an agency official said, because state law does not require schools to accept transfers. The law also does not require school districts to pay to transport students to schools farther away. The number of schools that must allow transfers under the 10-year-old Public Education Grant program nearly doubled statewide, from 420 last…

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