Pupil enrollment: interdistrict attendance.

Existing law authorizes the governing boards of 2 or more school districts to enter into an agreement, for a term not to exceed 5 school years, for the interdistrict attendance of pupils who are residents of the school districts. Existing law requires the agreement to stipulate the terms and conditions under which interdistrict attendance shall be permitted or denied. Existing law authorizes the person having legal custody of the pupil to appeal, within 30 calendar days of the failure or refusal to issue a permit or to enter into an agreement allowing the attendance, to the county board of education having jurisdiction over the school district of residence. Existing law also authorizes the governing board of a school district to provisionally admit a pupil who resides in another school district, pending a decision of the governing boards of the two school districts, or by the county board of education upon appeal, regarding the interdistrict attendance. This bill would require each school district of residence and school district of proposed enrollment to post on its Internet Web site the procedures and timelines regarding a request for an interdistrict transfer permit, including, among other things, the date upon which the school district will begin accepting and processing interdistrict transfer requests for the subsequent school year and the reasons for which the school district may approve or deny a request. The bill would require a school district to notify a parent submitting a current year request of its final decision within 30 calendar days from the date the request was received, and would require a school district to notify a parent submitting a future year request of its final decision as soon as possible, but no later than 14 calendar days after the commencement of instruction in the school year for which interdistrict transfer is sought. The bill would require a school district that denies a request for an interdistrict transfer to advise the parent, in writing, of the right to appeal to the county board of education within 30 calendar days from the date of the final denial. The bill would make a pupil eligible for provisional admission to a school district of proposed enrollment only upon providing reasonable evidence that a final decision for a request for interdistrict transfer is pending either with the school district of residence, the school district of proposed enrollment, or the county board of education. The bill would also make various nonsubstantive changes to these provisions. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 46600 of the Education Code proposed by AB 3086 to be operative only if this bill and AB 3086 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.