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Missouri Senate sets aside bill to create public school open-enrollment law after debate on 4-day school weeks
Summary
The Missouri Senate set aside House Bill 711, a proposal to create a public school open-enrollment act with an effective date of July 1, 2027. An amendment addressing 4-day school weeks was discussed but not adopted; the bill was placed for future consideration.
The Missouri Senate on Wednesday set aside House Bill 711, a proposal to create a public school open-enrollment act that would allow students to transfer to nonresident local education agencies and would not take effect before July 1, 2027.
Senator Curtis Trent of Battlefield, who handled the legislation in the upper chamber, told colleagues the measure would "establish the public school open enrollment act to enable students to transfer to nonresident local education agencies." An amendment was later offered that would address 4-day school weeks by allowing some districts that currently operate four-day schedules to keep them while letting other districts opt out.
Senator Steven Weber of Columbia described the trade-offs of four-day schedules on the Senate floor. "Well, I think that, ideally, kids who go to school 5 days a week, there are multiple school districts in my senate district that go 4 days a week. And they go 4 days a week because their elected school board members have decided that," Weber said.
The bill was set aside for future consideration; no final vote on passage was recorded during the floor remarks. The transcript of the floor discussion indicates the effective date for any enrollment under the proposed act would be July 1, 2027, and that the amendment about four-day weeks was debated but the Senate did not take immediate action to adopt or reject it.
Reporting from the state capital, Dean Morgan.
