Designed to address school safety concerns, the Unsafe School Choice Option (USCO) is another less publicized and brief component of the No Child Left Behind legislation, the centerpiece of Pres George W. Bush's educational agenda. The legislation mandates that state education agencies and local education agencies develop policies and procedures to enable students who are attending "persistently dangerous schools" (PDS) or those who are victims of violent crimes in school be given the option to transfer to another school. Here, Gooden and Harrington examine the patterns of state policy responses to the USCO policy mandates in those states that reported having PDS.