FILE: JFBA/JFBB-R
INTRA-DISTRICT/INTER-DISTRICT PERMIT REGULATIONS
1. Intra-District Attendance Areas
Students will attend the district school determined by their residence unless a permit to attend another school or program is approved. No student will be enrolled in a school or program outside his/her attendance area without prior approval in accordance with these regulations.
The principal of each school will be responsible for checking student enrollment records to determine that each student is a legal resident of that school's attendance area or has an approved authorization for a permit.
Students must register in the school serving their attendance area even though a request is pending for a permit. Registration in the requested school will not be permitted until the student has received written approval for a permit.
2. Intra-District/Inter-District permit window is November 1 - February 1 whereby parents may apply for the following school year. In implementing the permit program, the district is not required to enroll any non-resident student (inter-district) in any program or school after October 1.
Requests for permits must be initiated by the parent/guardian by filing the approved form with the principal of the school which the student wishes to attend (receiving school). The receiving school principal will notify the principal of the school in the student's attendance area of the disposition of the request (resident students only).
Forms will be available in every school building and in the central administrative office in the Department of Student Enrollment and Auditing. The principal will explain via the school newsletter to the parents/guardian the procedures used to process permit requests.
The receiving school principal will make the decision as to whether a permit application is accepted or denied based on the criteria established in state law or Board policy (FILE: JFBA/JFBB, and JC). The receiving school principal will be responsible for notifying the parents and students of approval or disapproval of a permit. When the application is made outside the permit window the receiving school principal will notify the parent/guardian no later than 5 school days of the time of application.
Reasons used by the principal to accept or deny permit requests shall be limited to any of the following:
1. there is a lack of space or teaching staff within a particular program or school requested based on the priorities outline in File JRBA/JFBB;
2. the school requested does not offer appropriate program or is not structured or equipped with the necessary facilities to meet special needs of the student or does not offer a particular program requested;
3. the student does not meet the established eligibility criteria for participation in a particular program (including age requirements, course prerequisites, and required levels of performance);
4. the student has been expelled or is in the process of being expelled for having been declared as a habitually disruptive student;
5. the student has been expelled, or is in the process of being expelled, for serious violations in a school building, or in or on school property. Included may be violations, without limitation, for carrying, bringing, using, or possessing a deadly weapon without the authorization of the school or the school district; selling a drug or controlled substance; or committing an act which if committed by an adult would be robbery or assault (other than the commission of an act by an elementary school student that would be third degree assault if committed by an adult);
6. the student has graduated from the twelfth grade or any school or the school had documentation evidencing completion of the equivalent of a secondary curriculum;
7. the student has failed to meet the school district's requirement age;
8. the student has been expelled from any school district during the preceding twelve months;
9. the student's immunization records are incomplete;
10. the student has exhibited behavior in another school district during the preceding twelve months that is detrimental to the welfare or safety of other pupils or of school personnel.
Upon enrollment at a school outside his/her attendance area, the student should plan to remain in that school for a full academic year.
Preference shall be given to siblings enrolled in the same school.
Each principal will maintain an up-to-date list of all permit requests to his/her building.
Those students who apply for a permit and cannot be approved at the time of application will have their permit request denied and will be placed on a waiting list in the order in which the applications are received within their respective category and will be considered for approval at a later date if space becomes available. The waiting list will be maintained until the end of the current year, after which a new waiting list will be developed for the next academic year.
Permits may be revoked for the following reasons:
1. there is a lack of space or teaching staff within a particular program or school requested based on the priorities outlined in File JFBA/JFBB;
2. the school requested does not offer appropriate programs or is not structured or equipped with the necessary facilities to meet special needs of the student or does not offer a particular program requested and,
3. the student does not meet the established eligibility criteria for participation in the particular program (including age requirements, course prerequisite, and required levels of performance).
Appeal procedure
Should a request for a permit be denied, the parent/guardian will be advised by the principal/designee that they may appeal the denial by contacting the Executive Director for School Leadership. The principal/designee will forward all three copies of the form to their Executive Director of School Leadership immediately following a parent/guardian conference with the receiving principal requesting the appeal.
The parent is to contact the District 11 Executive Director of School Leadership or in writing to the Division of Instruction, 1115 North El Paso Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, for an appeals hearing.
Approved November 30, 1994
Revised November 2, 2001
Revised August 2003
Colorado Springs School District No. 11, Colorado Springs, Colorado
August 2003