H.B. 349
         OPEN ENROLLMENT REVISIONS

house floor Amendments

Amendment 4 February 22, 2008 1:47 pm



Representative Kory M. Holdaway proposes the following amendments:

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             127      enrollment[; and].
 

    (c)(i) Notwithstanding the dates established in Subsection (4)(b) for submitting applications and and notifying parents of acceptance or rejection of an application, a local school board may delay the dates if a local school board is not able to make a reasonably accurate projection of the early enrollment school capacity or late enrollment school capacity of a school due to:
    (A) school construction or remodeling;
    (B) drawing or revision of school boundaries; or
    (C) or other circumstances beyond the control of the local school board.
    (ii) The delay may extend no later than four weeks beyond the date the local school board is able to make a reasonably accurate projection of the early enrollment school capacity or late enrollment school capacity of a school.  


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    House Committee Amendments
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             180          (2) Standards for accepting or rejecting an application for enrollment may include:
             181          (a) for an elementary school, the capacity of the [program, class,] grade level[, or
             182      school building];
             183          (b) maintenance of heterogeneous student populations if necessary to avoid violation of
             184      constitutional or statutory rights of students;
             185          (c) not offering H. [a] , or having capacity in, an elementary or secondary special
             185a      education
{   , Title 1 school,   } or other special .H program the student requires; [and]       

    (d) maintenance of reduced class sizes:
    (i) in a Title 1 school that uses federal, state, and local monies to reduce class sizes for the purpose of improving student achievement; or
    (ii) in a school that uses school trust monies to reduce class size;  

             186          
{   (d)   }        (e)       willingness of prospective students to comply with district policies[.]; and

             187          
{   (e)   }        (f)       giving priority to intradistrict transfers over interdistrict transfers.


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