Applications for full-time open enrollment. (FE)

However, under the bill, if the pupil's parent is no longer employed by the nonresident school board as a teacher or an administrator, the nonresident school board may require the pupil to reapply using the standard or existing alternative OEP application procedure.

Current law limits the criteria that a nonresident school district may use to accept or reject applications under the OEP. One of the criteria that a nonresident school district may use is the availability of space in the schools, programs, classes, or grades in the nonresident school district. Current law requires each school board to determine the availability of regular and special education spaces it has for nonresident pupils to attend school under the OEP at the school board's regular January meeting in the preceding school year. Under the application procedure created in the bill, a nonresident school board may accept a pupil's application even if the result is that the nonresident school board exceeds the number of spaces it determined were available for nonresident pupils in a school, program, class, or grade in the nonresident school district. In other words, the space limitations determined by the nonresident school board do not apply to these applications. The bill also adds whether a pupil's parent is employed as a teacher by the nonresident school district to the criteria that a nonresident school district may use to accept or reject OEP applications.

Finally, current law limits the number of nonresident school boards to which a pupil may apply to attend a public school in a nonresident school district under the OEP. Specifically, under current law, OEP applications for a pupil may be submitted to no more than three nonresident school boards in any school year. However, applications submitted to a nonresident school board for a pupil to attend a virtual charter school under the OEP does not count towards this limitation. Under the bill, applications submitted under the new application procedure also do not count towards this limitation and may be submitted even if applications for the pupil have already been submitted to nonresident school boards in that school year.