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Parent presses district for explanation after open‑enrollment placements; superintendent offers follow‑up
Summary
At a Fremont City Schools board meeting a parent said an email moved her children from their chosen Otis/Krogan elementary placement to their home school and asked the district to explain the criteria; Superintendent Denise Hirt offered to meet and provide the district policy and capacity information.
Rosie Vencel, a Fremont resident, told the Fremont City Schools board she and her husband returned to the district in 2022 and had placed their children at Otis/Krogan Elementary through intra‑district open enrollment, but on July 30 she received an email stating the students would instead attend their home school and received no further explanation.
That lack of explanation prompted Vencel to ask the board for the criteria the district used to move students. "Uprooting my kids from the highest performing school in our district and being asked to send them to one of the poorest performing schools in our…
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