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Transfers and the Waiver Process
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the waiver form.
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to download the work verification form.
In-Zone Transfers
Parents or guardians may request one transfer for their child
to attend another school in their choice zone at certain times
by reapplying through the school selection and student
assignment process. Such transfers will be subject to the same
capacity restraints, the same system of priorities, and the same
diversity guidelines as any other student assignment.
The parent or guardian must make any request for transfer at
any of the Student Assignment Offices, indicating their
ordered preference of the schools in the choice zone for which
they are eligible. Parents or guardians will be counseled
regarding available seats within their choice zone and available
sub-zones.
Absent extenuating circumstances, only one such transfer will
be permitted during an academic year. In addition, if a transfer
request is made during the first fifteen day enrollment cycle,
the student will immediately be removed from the eligibility
pool for any requested school. In-zone transfers are not
permitted during FTE reporting periods, county-wide testing
dates, three weeks prior to winter break, or after the third
quarter.
Waivers
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the waiver form.
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to download the work verification form.
There are four recognized grounds for waivers allowing
permanent assignments that are not subject to the priorities and
guidelines of the Plan.
Parents must provide their own transportation if a waiver
is approved unless transportation is already set up and
there are seats available on the bus.
i. Employee waiver. An employee may request a waiver
when he or she works at a school on a full-time basis and wants
his/her child to attend that same school.
ii. Hardship waiver. A waiver may be granted when
extenuating circumstances, which can be documented, exist for a
family and those circumstances necessitate the placement of a
student at a different school than the school assigned. If the
student assignment office denies a hardship waiver the first
time it is submitted, the parent or guardian has the right to
request a second review. If the student assignment office
declines the waiver request after a second review, a third
review may be requested. A committee composed of three-to-five
community members selected by the Superintendent from the
Unitary School System Advisory Committee and/or the former
Student Assignment Task Force will conduct the third review. The
committee shall be known as the Student Assignment Community
Committee. No District staff will be appointed to this Student
Assignment Community Committee. Parents and guardians are
encouraged to provide additional documentation to support their
hardship as they move to a higher level in the review process.
All decisions by the Student Assignment Community Committee
shall be reviewed and approved by the Superintendent or his/her
designee.
iii. High School waiver. A student who has been in
attendance at a high school for four consecutive semesters and
moves to a different zone may request a waiver. He/she is
eligible for a High School waiver in order to stay at that
school until graduation. High School waivers may also be granted
for those students who have remained in the International
Baccalaureate or Center for the Arts programs for four
consecutive semesters and want to leave the program but remain
at the same school.
iv. Moving waiver. A parent or guardian who moves into a
different zone during the school year after the first grading
period is eligible for a moving waiver to continue the child at
his or her current school until the end of the year. The parent
or guardian is required to complete an application for the next
year for the correct zone at the time of filing a moving waiver
request.
The District may, in the interest of promoting student
assignment stability, approve a temporary student assignment
waiver. Such a waiver shall expire at the end of the academic
year in which it is requested.
The District may also grant a waiver in the form of a
temporary reassignment to a school in another choice zone if it
can be assured, to the satisfaction of the Director of Student
Assignment, that the student’s residence will change to the new
zone in the first semester of the academic year and that it is
in the best interest of the child to begin and complete the
school year in the new zone of residence.
Transportation for students under either of these waivers may
be provided if transportation routes exist and if seats are
available on the bus otherwise parents will be responsible for
transporting students assigned to a school via a waiver.
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