Policy for Admission of Non-Resident Students
May 5, 2009
Hello all,
After I attended the SC meeting on April 30th as well this morning’s PTA meeting, I have
sought and have attached here the current (2003) policy for Admission of Non-Resident
Students as well as the draft for revision presented at the April 30th SC meeting. The
School Committee has taken up revision of this policy for two reasons 1. In an effort to
align it with the new class size policy and 2. There was a large number of requests (12) to
enroll non-resident children for the 09/10 school year. At the April 30th meeting the SC did
vote to approve enrollment of all 12 students, but have deferred a vote on the policy change
to a future SC date (TBD).
There are major changes being presented that parents, teachers and other town employees
may want to understand or may want to know more about before the School Committee
votes.
Some of the changes alter the following:
1. how and when and by whom the space availability in a particular grade is determined
2. under current policy children currently admitted and enrolled are allowed to stay in the
system as long as the parent is a town employee. Under the new draft policy, each year
eligibility for the children of town employees will be evaluated
Jennifer Glass on the SC has proposed a revision to the draft attached here to “grandfather”
all current students such that they would not be subject to annual evaluation under the
proposed new draft criteria. This revision language has not yet been put into the document.
If you are interested in this topic, I encourage you to look at both documents and
communicate to the School Committee your thoughts.
Jillian
Policy for Admission of Non-Resident Students, DRAFT, Page 1
Policy for Admission of Non-Resident Students, DRAFT, Page 2
Policy for Admission of Non-Resident Students, DRAFT, Page 3
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