PartTime Open Enrollment

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• Part-Time Open Enrollment

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Two Types of Inter-District Open Enrollment

• Full-time open enrollment
• student transfers from one school district to
  another on a full-time basis
• Part-time open enrollment
• high school students may take up to two courses
  in nonresident school districts

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Who Can Open Enroll on a Part-Time Basis?

• A student enrolled in a public school in the high
  school grades
• May attend public school in a nonresident school
  district for the purpose of taking a course
  offered by the nonresident school district
• May take no more than 2 courses at any time in a
  nonresident district

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School Board Policies

• School boards are required to adopt part-time OE
  policies
• Nonresident district acceptance and rejection
  criteria.
• Resident district acceptance and rejection
  criteria.

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How Does It Work?

• The student applies to the nonresident school
  district no later than 6 weeks before the start
  of the course.
• The application is reviewed by both nonresident
  resident districts, each of which can deny the
  application for certain reasons.

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• If the application is approved by both districts,
  the student can take the course.
• Parents are responsible for transportation.

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Who Pays?

• The resident school district pays to the
  nonresident school district the cost of the
  course
• Defined as the nonresident districts daily
  regular education tuition rate x the FTE of the
  course.

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Statistics
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Not To Be Confused With

• Part-time attendance for private school and
  home-base students who may
• Take up to two high school courses in the
  students resident school district if space is
  available.

For further information on the part-time
attendance option, go to www.dpi.wi.gov/sms/basci
nf.html
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Applying for Part-Time Open Enrollment
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Application Period

• There is no uniform application period for
  part-time OE
• Instead, students must apply no later than 6
  weeks before the start of the course.
• It is the parents responsibility to obtain, from
  the nonresident district, the starting date for
  the course.

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Application Form

• PI 9412
• web-based form (pdf)

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• Application form must be submitted to the
  nonresident school district
• May apply for one or two courses.
• May request a specific school (not guaranteed).
• May apply to more than one nonresident school
  district but may only take a total of two courses
  in nonresident school districts at any one time.

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• There is no starting date to the application
  period.
• Some students apply in the spring for fall
  classes.
• Applications may not be late.
• School districts may enter into 66.04 agreements
  at any time, but as a parental choice program,
  the application form must be on time.

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Nonresident DistrictReceiving, Handling
Acting on Applications
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Receive ApplicationsForward Request Records

• Forward the form to the resident district, w/in 3
  working days.
• Request records
• Expulsion records.
• Transcripts necessary to ensure the student is a
  high school student and meets pre-requisites for
  the course.
• Do not send copy of the form to the DPI.

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Send Cost Estimate

• As soon as possible after receiving the
  application
• The nonresident district must send to the
  resident district an estimate of the cost of the
  course

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Cost Calculation

• Total of instructional hours the student will
  be enrolled in the course.
• Total of instructional hours required for a
  full-time high school student in the district.
• Divide the result of 1 by the result of 2.
• Multiply the result of 3 by the districts
  regular education tuition rate.

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Required Preferences

• Preference in the course goes to resident
  students attending private schools and home-based
  programs who apply for the course under s.
  118.145, as long as the student applied for the
  course
• More than one week before the start of the
  course, or
• Prior to a date established by the school board
  that is within the application period for the
  course.

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Preferences Permitted by School Board Policy

• May grant preference in the course to resident
  students eligible to take the course, including
• Students attending a school in the district other
  than the one in which the course is offered.
• Home-base private school students who are
  applying for courses other than under s. 118.145.
• Students over age 20.

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Apply Criteria

• Determine if space is available
• Use random selection if more applications than
  spaces
• Determine if student meets the same criteria for
  the course as resident students, i.e. grades,
  discipline, etc.
• A school district is not required to enroll a
  student during the term of an expulsion s.
  120.13 (1) (f).

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Notification

• Must notify parent of approval or denial no later
  than one week before the start of the course
• Parent must notify the nonresident district prior
  to the start of the course, whether the student
  will attend.

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Resident District Receiving, Handling Acting
on Applications
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Receive ApplicationsForward Records

• As soon as possible after receipt of an
  application from a nonresident district, the
  resident district must send requested records
• Special education records.
• Expulsion records.
• Transcripts.

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Resident DistrictReasons for Denial

• May deny if cost of course is an undue financial
  burden.
• Must deny if course conflicts with students IEP.
• May not deny based on the resident districts
  offering a comparable course.

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Notification

• Must notify of approval or denial no later than
  one week before the start of the course
• Must also notify the student if the course does
  not meet the resident districts high school
  graduation requirements (though this is not a
  reason for denial)

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Miscellaneous
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Appeal of Denial

• Denial may be appealed to the DPI within 30 days.
  
• DPI decision is final. May not be appealed to
  circuit court.

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Rights Responsibilities

• Student has the same rights responsibilities as
  resident students.
• District should review its policies pertaining to
  students who attend school less than full-time.

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Transportation

• Parent is responsible for transportation.
• Low-income parents may apply to the DPI for
  reimbursement of transportation costs.
• Refer reimbursement questions to DPI.

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Summer School

• Students may take summer school courses under
  part-time open enrollment, but only for courses
  that are eligible for general state aid.

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Part-Time Open Enrollment Youth Options

• A student may participate in both part-time open
  enrollment youth options as long as the student
  meets the requirements for each program.

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Reporting

• Part-time open enrollment is reported on the
  course offerings report (PI 1215).

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Resources
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Web Site List Serve

• Open enrollment web site
• www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/dfm/sms/psctoc.html
• Open enrollment list serve
• Receive information and announcements.
• Printed information rarely used.
• To sign up, send email to
• L.scott.eagleburger_at_dpi.state.wi.us

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Open Enrollment StaffToll-Free 888-245-2732Fax
608-267-9207
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Department of Public Instruction125 S. Webster
StreetP.O. Box 7841Madison, WI
53707-7841www.dpi.gov
Department of Public Instruction Elizabeth
Burmaster, State Superintendent November, 2006