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Waunakee board moves from guaranteed to ‘preferred’ open-enrollment status for some students
Summary
The school board approved a policy change that shifts two categories of open-enrollment applicants — current resident families who move out of district and siblings of accepted open-enrollment students — from guaranteed acceptance to a preference that respects class-size and special-education capacity limits.
The Waunakee Community School District Board of Education approved a revision to its open-enrollment policy on June 9 that changes two categories of applicants from guaranteed acceptance to a “preferred” status.
Board discussion focused on the policy’s practical effect. Under current state law, boards may set options for how the district treats students who move out of the district and siblings of students already accepted through open enrollment. The district’s long-standing practice guaranteed acceptance; the revised policy gives those applicants priority…
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