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Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

SB 639

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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

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. 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: Craig (R) , Kooyenga (R)

2 cosponsors

Kuglitsch (R) , Sanfelippo (R)

Full history

  1. Jan 8, 2020 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Kooyenga and Craig; cosponsored by Representatives Sanfelippo and Kuglitsch

  2. Jan 8, 2020 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Apr 1, 2020 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1