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Relating to open enrollment of certain students and the determination of good cause and including applicability provisions
Sponsored by the House Education Committee
Topics:K–12 education
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 21, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 21, 2021
- Done: House committeeFebruary 2, 2021
- Done: Passes the HouseFebruary 17, 2021
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary This law changes the rules for students who want to switch schools through open enrollment. It adds prekindergarten students in special education programs to the group that must follow the September deadline. It also allows families to request a late school change if a child moves between parents or if a prekindergarten student is first placed in a special education program.1
Read the official explanation
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. This bill modifies several provisions related to Iowa’s open enrollment law.18(2) establishes deadlines for requests to open enroll as March of the preceding school year for students entering grades one through twelve and as September of the current school year for students entering kindergarten.18. The bill also amends the definition of “good cause” for purposes of consideration and approval of open enrollment requests that fail to meet statutory deadlines to include a change in a child’s residence from the residence of one parent or guardian to the residence of a different parent or guardian and the initial placement of a prekindergarten student in a special education program requiring specially designed instruction. 18 to reflect the amendment to the definition of good cause. The bill applies to school years beginning on or after July 1, 2021.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 22, 2021. On March 23, 2021 it recommended passage.
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