This article reports the plan of the U.S. Department of Education to expand a pilot initiative that would flip the order of key consequences for schools' low academic performance under the No Child Left Behind Act. Building on an initiative piloted in Virginia for school year 2006-2007, participating districts could offer a choice of supplemental educational services, or SES, a year before having to provide the option of transferring to a higher-performing school. While some state education officials are welcoming the new flexibility, which some of them had long sought, the effort is also facing sharp criticism.