With less than

three weeks to go until school starts, some parents in Coweta County remain

confused over which school their children will attend.

Earlier this

month, the Coweta County Board of Education passed a policy allowing parents

at five elementary schools to send their children to different schools

this fall.

For the 2002-2003

school year, Arnco Sargent, Atkinson, Elm Street, Eastside and Jefferson

Parkway Elementary School will offer voluntary school choice under the

guidelines of the Reauthorized Elementary and Secondary School Act of

2001.

The act allows

all students in schools who fail to make adequate progress after identification

the option to transfer to another public school within the system with

transportation provided by the system.

But Coweta

Schools Public Information Officer Dean Jackson said only two schools,

Jefferson Parkway and Elm Street, may now be eligible to allow students

to transfer.

The confusion

apparently starts at the federal level and filters down, Jackson said.

Originally,

Jefferson Parkway and elm Street were the only schools identified in the

county on the "needs improvement" list.

But just before

this month's school board meeting, the three additional schools were added,

so the board passed a policy addressing transfers at all five schools.

Now, unofficially,

the school system is hearing the state may go