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Waunakee board approves change to open-enrollment policy, replacing guarantee with preference
Summary
The Waunakee Community School District Board voted to revise its open-enrollment policy to change guaranteed acceptance for former residents and siblings to a "preference" status; the change will apply to future application periods and district staff will notify families about the shift.
The Waunakee Community School District Board on June 9 approved a revision to its open-enrollment policy that replaces a long-standing guarantee of acceptance for current district families who move out (and for siblings of accepted open-enrollment students) with a preference status.
The change narrows the guaranteed right to remain that the district had applied for more than 20 years and makes those students’s applications “preferred” — meaning they would receive priority over other new applicants but would not automatically override class-size limits or special-education capacity constraints, district administrators…
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