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Committee advances bill restoring 95% capacity limit for intra-district transfers
Summary
The Senate Education Committee voted to give House Bill 1945 a do-pass recommendation; the bill permits intra-district school choice and reinstates a 95% capacity threshold that allows schools to deny transfers when nearing capacity.
Senator Brianne Davis, State Senate District 25, presented House Bill 1945 as a companion to a previously passed Senate measure that authorizes intra-district school choice and reinserts a 95% maximum capacity threshold for receiving schools.
"This allows intra district choice," Davis said, describing a scenario in which a student zoned for one high school asks to attend another within the same district. The bill requires receiving schools to accept credits from the sending school and restores a capacity cap so districts can deny transfers when a receiving school is at or above 95% of capacity for the grade level.
Committee members sought detail on…
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