About a year later, many, including Mr. Kitamoto's family, sought transfer to the Minidoka relocation camp in south central Idaho to be with other prisoners from the Seattle area.
She sought transfer to Panchkula, a city near Chandigarh.
The low number of parents seeking transfers reflects the different values parents use in judging schools.
The new list will allow students from another 43 schools -- those receiving poverty money -- to seek transfers.
Of those, 136 receive federal poverty money, meaning that their students should be eligible to seek transfers.
Although constantly seeking transfers precipitates perpetual turnover, O'Brien's transfer brings a bit of stability to Wisconsin's strategy.
Many are students whose parents did not want to send them to their local schools and were savvy enough to seek transfers.
But other public officials said the city had discouraged parents from seeking transfers and is offering the transfers too late -- a month into the school year, the transfers have yet to be granted.
Students at those schools, under No Child Left Behind, must be allowed to seek transfers to other schools or, in some cases, be offered supplemental services like tutoring and online classes.
