Charter schools: admissions: preferences.

Existing law requires a charter school to admit all pupils who wish to attend the school and requires attendance to be determined by a public random drawing if the number of pupils who wish to attend the charter school exceeds the school's capacity, except preference is required to be extended to pupils attending the charter school and pupils who reside in the school district, except as specified. Existing law authorizes other preferences to be permitted by the chartering authority on an individual school basis and only if consistent with the law. This bill would authorize a charter school to also extend preference to pupils matriculating to a higher grade from one charter school to another charter school managed by the same charter school operator.