Sent:	Wednesday, December 14, 2011 12:38 PM
 
To – District Administrators and Open Enrollment Coordinators
 
From – Mary Jo Cleaver, Open Enrollment Consultant
 
Subject – Legislative Audit Bureau Report on Open Enrollment Funding
 
The Legislative Audit Bureau (LAB) has released its report on Open Enrollment Funding.  You may view and 
download the report here: http://legis.wisconsin.gov/lab/reports/11-openenrollment_ltr.pdf
  
As you may know, 2011 Wisconsin Act 32, the 2011-13 Biennial Budget Act, contained a requirement for the LAB to 
report to the legislature on:
 
--the history of the open enrollment transfer amount;
 
-- alternatives for increasing the transfer amount based on the costs to the receiving districts of educating transfer 
pupils and the amount of funding that sending districts retain for their fixed costs;
 
--alternatives for transferring sending districts’ revenue limit amounts or state aid to the receiving districts; and
 
--the effects of these alternatives on districts that either gain or lose a relatively large proportion of their pupils 
under the program.
 
The LAB’s report was released today, December 14, 2011.   From the LAB cover letter:
 
“To illustrate a range of options, our report identifies five transfer amount alternatives that the Legislature could 
consider. To describe the potential financial effects of the five alternatives, we determined the amount of open 
enrollment funding each district would have gained or lost if any one of the alternatives had been in effect for the 
2010-11 school year and compared the results to the amounts each district actually received in that school year.”
  
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