House of Representatives

HB 2587

school districts; admissions; other districts

Sponsors: Representatives Hershberger, Huffman, Cardamone et al.

 

DP

Committee on Education

DPA

Caucus and COW

 

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As Passed the House

 

HB 2587 requires a school district that pays tuition to another school district for high school students to separately project the enrollment figures for those students.  If the projection exceeds 350 pupils, the School Facility Board, the sending district and the receiving district are required to develop a facilities plan to best serve those pupils.

 

History

Current law requires a school district to admit pupils from another school district or area to a high school if the pupil is a resident of an elementary school district that is not within the boundaries of a high school district.  The elementary school district must pay tuition for each pupil that the district sends to a high school in another district. 

 

There are currently 49 elementary school districts that are not within the boundaries of a high school district or unified school district.  None of these districts currently have more than 500 high school students that they tuition to a high school or unified school district.

 

Provisions

·                      Requires school districts to separately project enrollment for the pupils who are non-residents of the school district they attend because they reside in an elementary district that is not within the boundaries of a school district that serves high school students.

 

·                      Provides that if the non-resident pupil count exceeds 350 pupils; the School Facility Board, the sending district and the receiving district are required to develop a facilities plan to best serve those pupils.

 

HB 2587 passed the Education Committee unamended.

 

HB 2587 was amended in the Committee of the Whole as follows:

 

·                      Requires school districts to separately project enrollment for the pupils who are non-residents of the school district they attend because they reside in an elementary district that is not within the boundaries of a school district that serves high school students.

 

·                      Provides that if the non-resident pupil count exceeds 350 pupils; the School Facility Board, the sending district and the receiving district are required to develop a facilities plan to best serve those pupils.

 

 

 

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44th Legislature                                                                                                                                

Second Regular Session                               2                                                         March 19, 2001

 

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