The Courier-Journal reports in “JCPS moves up application period, gives less time to accept magnet school spots” that the limited school choice options for parents in Louisville are about to get another limitation – more limited time for parents to select from the few school choice options the school system allows them.

In the future, Jefferson County Public Schools will allow parents less time to apply to the magnet schools and only a week to decide to send their child to a magnet if the child actually wins selection there.

And, if the child does not get into a magnet school, then Jefferson County Schools officials ultimately decide where the student goes to school, which could involve a bus ride all the way to the other side of the county.