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HB 761 Part-time admission and enrollment of nonpublic school students.

Introduced by: Frank W. Wagner | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Part-time admission and enrollment of nonpublic school students. Directs local school boards to develop policies, consistent with their constitutional and statutory responsibilities for providing public education, for the part-time admission and enrollment of students who are either enrolled in a nonpublic school or receiving home instruction. The policies must address attendance zones, evidence of residence, equitable student selection, and compliance by such students with all relevant public school policies during attendance time. In addition, the policies shall require that the parent to apply for the desired class or classes to the division superintendent or to the principal of the school to be attended, and shall require the parent to obtain permission for such part-time enrollment from the chief administrator of the relevant nonpublic school in which the student is enrolled on a full-time basis. Approval for part-time admission and enrollment shall only be granted if the school has space in the desired class or classes after accommodating the pupils who are regularly enrolled in the school and the school division. Approval is limited to admission and enrollment in no more than two classes. Pursuant to Standard 1 of the Standards of Quality, students enrolled in a public school on a less than full-time basis are counted in average daily membership in the relevant school division. Students who are either enrolled in a nonpublic school or receiving home instruction and who are enrolled in public school on a less than full-time basis in any mathematics, science, English, history, social science, vocational education, fine arts, foreign language, health education, or physical education course shall be counted in the average daily membership in the relevant school division on a pro rata basis as provided in the appropriation act. No such student will be counted as more than one-half of a student. The 1998-2000 Appropriation Act supports this requirement.


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