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Board discusses option-enrollment parameters; formal vote scheduled for next meeting
Summary
The North Platte Public Schools board reviewed state-required option-enrollment parameters, including classroom caps and a list of closed grades at multiple elementary schools. Superintendent Dr. Rhodes said the district must set these parameters annually; the board will take formal action at its next regular meeting.
The North Platte Public Schools Board of Education discussed parameters for option (open) enrollment that the board must adopt annually under state legislation, with formal action scheduled for the board’s next regular meeting.
Superintendent Dr. Rhodes told the board that state law requires districts to adopt an annual resolution setting the parameters and ratios that govern option enrollment in October and that the resolution remains in effect until the district adopts a new one. "This also came out of the legislature a few years ago," Dr. Rhodes said, explaining the timing and scope of the requirement.
Dr. Rhodes outlined classroom-size targets the district is using to set capacity for option students: K–2 classrooms at 20 students and grades 3–5 at 22 students; English-learner classes at the…
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