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3140 - Release of Resident Students

Policy: 3140

Section: 3000 - Students

Title: Release of Resident Students

Status: Active

Adopted: March 19, 1981

Release of Resident Students

A student who resides within the boundaries of the district will be released to 1) attend school full time (1.0 FTE) in another district, or 2) enroll for ancillary services, if any, in another district as specified in the parental declaration of intent to provide home-based instruction, provided the other district agrees to accept the student if:

  1. A financial, educational, safety or health condition affecting the student would be reasonably improved as a result of the transfer. The term “condition affecting the student” means a financial, educational, safety, or health benefit which cannot be met or achieved by attendance in the student’s resident district. The term “would likely be reasonably improved” means it is probable, in the judgment of a reasonable person, that the nature and effect of the benefit to be received will be real and meaningful;
  2. Attendance at the school in the nonresident district is more accessible to the parent’s/guardian’s place of work or to the location of child care;
  3. There is some other special hardship or detrimental condition affecting the student or the student’s immediate family which would be alleviated as a result of the transfer.  The term “special” means a circumstance or factor which is generally not applicable to other students or families. The terms “hardship” and “detrimental condition” apply to any circumstance or factor harmfully affecting the student or student’s immediate family and is not restricted to a financial, educational, safety, or health condition. A special hardship includes:

1. A student who was enrolled the previous school year in a nonresident district who is scheduled to complete in the same nonresident district during the next school year the highest grade offered in the resident district; and

2. A student who has completed two (2) or more school years in a nonresident district without a release but with the knowledge of such nonresident attendance by the superintendent or any member of the board of directors of the resident district.

  1. The purpose of the transfer is for the student to enroll in an online course or online school program offered by an online provider approved under RCW 28A.250.020.

In all cases that the district approves the release of a resident student, the student or the student’s parent(s)/guardian(s) shall be solely responsible for transportation.

 

Annually the district will inform parents of interdistrict enrollment options. Providing online access to the office of the superintendent of public instruction's annual information outlining parents’ and guardians’ enrollment options for their children satisfies the requirements of this policy unless a parent or guardian specifically requests information to be provided in written form.

  

Cross references:               3130 Attendance Areas and Transfers

                                         3131 District Attendance Area Transfers

Legal References:       

RCW  28A.225.220             Adults, children from other districts, agreements for attending school —Tuition

28A.225.225                      Enrolling Children of Certificated and Classified School Employees

28A.225.230                      Appeal from certain decisions to deny student’s request to attend nonresident district — Procedure

28A.225.290                      Enrollment options information booklet

28A.225.300                      Enrollment options information to parents

WAC 392-137-130              Release of students to nonresident districts

WAC 392-137-190              Appeal notice –Denial of release or admission

  

Management Resources:       

Policy News, June 2003       Enrolling Children of School Employees

Policy News, February 2001 Federal Budget Implicates Policy

                                        

 Adoption Date: 03.19.81

Ferndale School District

Revised: 09.17.81; 03.24.83; 11.20.86; 03.08.89; 06.28.90;01.27.94; 01.26.95; 01.28.14; 02.26.19; 06.30.2026