Since school started back, parents may no longer have their children transferred from one Bulloch County school to another on the basis of various “hardship” circumstances throughout the year. As required under Georgia’s 2009 public school choice law, families will still be able to apply for a reassignment to a different school in the county during a three-week window in May. Seats are assigned then on an as-available basis, and when the number of requests exceeds the seats available in a school, a publicly conducted drawing is used to decide who gets to transfer.