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HB 2030 School boards; policies or regulations for enrollment of nonresident students, report.

Introduced by: Jason S. Ballard | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

School boards; nonresident student enrollment policies; work group; report. Requires any school board that accepts for enrollment students who reside outside of the local school division to establish and make available to the public policies or regulations that include considerations for the eligibility for such nonresident student enrollment, application procedures and timelines, and a transparent and fair method to address enrollment requests beyond capacity. The bill requires the Department of Education to compile and post publicly and prominently on its website a database of each such set of school board policies or regulations. The bill requires the Secretary of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene a work group of relevant stakeholders to issue recommendations no later than October 1, 2023, to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations, the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations, the House Committee on Education, and the Senate Committee on Education and Health on the implementation of tuition-free nonresident student enrollment in the Commonwealth.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

School boards; interdivision enrollment policies; funding. Requires each local school board to establish, annually update, post on its website, and make available to the public upon request policies relating to the interdivision enrollment in the local school division of students who do not reside in the local school division. The bill requires each such set of local school board policies to clearly state whether or not the local school board permits the interdivision enrollment in the local school division of students who do not reside in the local school division, and if the local school board does permit such interdivision enrollment, the bill requires such policies to include (i) methods for determining available slots by grade, school, and program, including career and technical education, hybrid, and virtual programs; (ii) enrollment criteria; (iii) application procedures and timelines; and (iv) a transparent and fair method to address enrollment requests beyond capacity. The bill requires the Department of Education to compile and post publicly and prominently on its website a database of each such set of school board policies. The bill provides that each local school board that accepts for enrollment a student who resides outside of the local school division is entitled to receive from the Commonwealth an amount equal to the greater of all applicable Standards of Quality per pupil state funds for the student or the state average of such funding and that each such student shall be excluded from the required local effort and the required local match of the receiving local school division.