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Red Oak board okays updated open enrollment policy
(Red Oak) -- Red Oak school officials are among those adjusting to slight updates Iowa lawmakers have made to the state's open enrollment laws. Meeting in regular session Wednesday night, the Red Oak School Board, by a 4-0 vote, approved the first reading and waived the second and third readings to update its open enrollment policies after the Iowa Legislature passed Senate File 2435--which took effect on July 1st. The legislation reinstates a March 1st deadline for parents to submit an open enrollment request for an upcoming school year--except for the 2024-25 school year, with lawmakers allowing applications submitted between March 1st and June 30th to not require a "good cause" for waiving the deadline. The change came after state lawmakers in 2023 had removed the deadline, allowing parents to enroll their students in another district at any point during the year. Red Oak School Superintendent Ron Lorenz says the 2024 legislation essentially reverts open enrollment laws back to how they were before 2023.
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