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MAGNET SCHOOLS AND PROGRAMS

The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board is committed to providing quality educational opportunities for all students, regardless of background, by providing each student an educational environment that enhances that student's educational success.  The School Board is also committed to encouraging all parents to play active roles in their children's education and to increasing the educational choices available to parents and students in the public schools.

The School Board supports magnet schools and programs as one tool for achieving these goals.  First, the School Board believes that magnet schools and programs should promote educational excellence and offer to students with different interests, talents, and aptitudes, distinct choices that may enhance their educational success.  The School Board also believes that magnet schools and programs should be used to develop innovative instructional practices and promote systemic reform.  Lastly, magnet schools and programs are a tool for the promotion of diversity within schools.  As defined by the School Board, diversity includes racial, ethnic, economic, gender, and special needs populations.

DEFINITION

As used in this policy, magnet schools and programs are defined as those schools and programs with a specialized curriculum or those with an emphasis on instruction that is different from that generally offered in other schools throughout the school system. Magnet schools and programs can be total-school or school-within-a-school programs.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

The criteria for admission to each magnet program is printed in the Magnet Program Catalog for each school year.  Criteria for retention in each magnet program is based on adherence to the district's policies and procedures as stated in the Pupil Progression Plan and the provisions enumerated in the student/parent contract.

East Baton Rouge Parish School Board