Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session
Relating to: allowing the School District of New Berlin to give preference to residents of New Berlin in accepting full-time open enrollment applications.
School — Attendance School — Board School — Building Waukesha county
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, a pupil may attend a public school in a school district other
than the pupil's resident school district (nonresident school district) under the
full-time open enrollment program (OEP). Under the OEP, a nonresident school
district must annually determine the number of regular education and special
education spaces that it has available for nonresident pupils under the OEP. If a
nonresident school district receives more applications than it has available in a
particular grade or program, the nonresident school board must determine, on a
random basis, which applications to accept, after applying certain preferences.
Under current law, when accepting OEP applications, a nonresident school
board must give preference to pupils and siblings of pupils who are already attending
the nonresident school district and, if the nonresident school district is a union high
school district, to pupils attending an underlying elementary school district under
the OEP. This bill allows the New Berlin School Board to also give preference to
pupils who reside in New Berlin.
Sponsors
Introduced by: Kuglitsch (R) , Sanfelippo (R)
Full history
- Dec 23, 2019 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Sanfelippo and Kuglitsch; cosponsored by Senators Kooyenga and Craig
- Dec 23, 2019 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Education
- Jan 23, 2020 · Assembly
Public hearing held
- Apr 1, 2020 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1