The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine nine states' policy responses to the Unsafe School Choice Option between 2002 and 2007. These states had 199 schools designated as "persistently dangerous schools" since 2002. Unsafe School Choice Option is one of the school choice options of the No Child Left Behind law that required states to establish guidelines to identify and deal with persistently dangerous schools and students who are victims of a violent crime while in or on school grounds. (Contains 1 table and 47 notes.)