Rhode Island offers K–12 students and their families a few types of school choice, including one private school choice program, charter schools, magnet schools, home schooling and inter-district and intra-district public school choice through open enrollment.
Rhode Island
Private School Choice
Rhode Island has one private school choice program, a tax-credit scholarship. This program helps families send their children to participating private schools.
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Rhode Island
Tax Credits for Contributions to Scholarship Organizations
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Public School Choice
Rhode Island has intra-district and inter-district open enrollment policies, which allow parents to transfer their children to traditional public schools outside of their zoned schools. Rhode Island has at least one magnet school.
Charter School Choice
Rhode Island has a few charter schools. Charter schools are publicly funded schools that are free of many of the regulations that restrict traditional public schools.
Home School Choice
Parents have to follow certain laws in Rhode Island when homeschooling their children.
K-12 Education in Rhode Island Polling Insights
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