Pupil attendance: interdistrict transfers: agreements: policies

Families will get published transfer procedures, prompt notice of missing materials, and defined decision deadlines. It also lets a proposed receiving district start reviewing an application without waiting for the home district.

What the law does ​

• Requires districts with new or renewed interdistrict attendance agreements to adopt, post, and include in those agreements a transfer policy covering application dates, criteria, documents, appeals, deadlines, and permit revocation.
• Requires districts to notify parents within 30 days when a current-year request is incomplete and identify the missing information or documents.
• Allows up to a 30-day review extension for incomplete requests or when an individualized education program meeting is scheduled or pending, with written notice to the parent within the initial 30 days.
• Requires decisions on current-year requests within 30 days, subject to authorized extensions, and on future-year requests no later than 14 days after the requested school year begins.
• Allows parents or guardians to submit a request simultaneously to both districts and requires the proposed receiving district to begin its review upon receipt.

Who it affects ​

• Students and parents or guardians seeking to attend a school in another district.
• School districts that enter into interdistrict attendance agreements.
• County boards of education that hear appeals from transfer denials.

Context ​

Existing agreements that conflict with these requirements may continue under prior rules until they expire or are renewed.