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Attorney briefs Contoocook Valley board on open enrollment law, steps to limit inflow and outflow
Summary
Attorney Dean Eckert told the Contoocook Valley School District board that adopting an open-enrollment designation raises complex fiscal, special-education and admission-process questions—most immediately, districts must study capacity, set inflow/outflow limits, and prepare a warrant article and public hearing if they proceed.
Dean Eckert, an attorney with the firm Wadley, Starr & Peters, told the Contoocook Valley School District board on Dec. 3 that open enrollment is a rapidly evolving area of New Hampshire law and cautioned the district to study fiscal and operational effects before acting.
"Open enrollment is a hot topic right now," Eckert said, and he noted the statutory definition appears in RSA 194-d. He outlined multiple existing mechanisms for nonresident attendance—best-interest reassignment, manifest educational hardship, tuition and area agreements, education freedom accounts (EFAs) and CTE access—and explained how open enrollment differs from, and can displace, those approaches.
Eckert emphasized financial…
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