Mid-Missouri schools discuss open enrollment

Plan could come up again in Missouri legislature

Monday, November 15, 2010

While the coming legislative session still is nearly two months away, several Mid-Missouri school officials already are bracing for the possibility of lawmakers again discussing open enrollments.

Open enrollment is the idea that a student living in one district could attend a school in a different district, without needing to pay out-of-district tuition, as current law requires.

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In 2010, both the House and Senate received bills that would have allowed some form of open enrollment, but none made it out of one house and to the other.

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JCLifer 2 years, 6 months ago

In addition to cost-reimbursement for home schooling, vouchers for free education to private and parochial schoools, you can bet we are going to see a proliferation of charter schools soon.

outsiderwoody 2 years, 6 months ago

Public education should be supported, not destroyed through privatization of public services and diversion of public services to private, for profit charter schools. Interestingly, if you look at charter school performance in Missouri, you will see very few that out perform their public school counterparts.

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