Sent:	Friday, May 14, 2010 2:41 PM

To – District Administrators and Open Enrollment Coordinators 
 
From – Mary Jo Cleaver and Merry Larsen, DPI Open Enrollment Consultants
 
Subject – New Open Enrollment Legislation
 
 
On May 12, the Governor signed into law two bills relating to open enrollment: 
 
2009 Wisconsin Act 303 applies to pupils who are attending a K-8 school district under open enrollment and 
provides for them to be granted the same preference if they apply to the union high school serving the K-8 district 
as they would have if they were attending the union high school.  See 
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act303.pdf.  
 
2009 Wisconsin Act 304 applies to pupils attending a school district under open enrollment who are habitually 
truant.  The law provides that if a nonresident school districts determines that a pupil is habitually truant, the 
nonresident district may prohibit the pupil from attending the nonresident district in the succeeding semester or 
school year.   Act 304 also permits a school district to deny open enrollment to a pupil who was habitually truant 
from that school district in the current or preceding school year.  The Act does not permit a school district to deny 
open enrollment to a student who has been habitually truant from some other school district.  See 
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act304.pdf 
 
Mary Jo Cleaver
Public School Open Enrollment Consultant
Department of Public Instruction
608-267-9101 or toll-free 888-245-2732
fax:  608-267-9207
email: maryjo.cleaver@dpi.wi.gov
website: http://dpi.wi.gov/sms/psctoc.html 
 
Merry Larsen
Public School Open Enrollment Consultant
Department of Public Instruction
608-266-2146 or toll-free 888-245-2732
fax:  608-267-9207
email: merry.larsen@dpi.wi.gov
website: http://dpi.wi.gov/sms/psctoc.html