5111 - ELIGIBILITY OF RESIDENT/NONRESIDENT STUDENTS

Baugo Community School Corporation

Bylaws & Policies

5111 - ELIGIBILITY OF RESIDENT/NONRESIDENT STUDENTS

The School Board establishes the following residency policy for determining eligibility to attend the schools of this Corporation.

	A.	The Board will educate, tuition free, students who have legal settlement in the Corporation, and students enrolled in the Public Elementary and Secondary Schools Transfer Program according to the requirements of I.C. 20-26-11.
	B.	Where the legal settlement of a student cannot reasonably be determined and the student is being supported by and living with a person whose residence is within the School Corporation, the student may be enrolled without payment of tuition. If the parents are able to support the student and have placed him/her in the home of another person primarily for the purpose of attending school in this Corporation without establishing legal guardianship or custodianship as required by Indiana law, tuition will be charged.
	C.	Foreign students participating in a foreign-exchange program approved by the State School Board and living with a resident host family will be admitted tuition free.
	D.	The Corporation will provide a free education to those students who are considered by Federal law to be illegal aliens, if the student’s parent or legal guardian has legal settlement within the Corporation, or considered to be homeless by criteria established by the State (see Policy 5111.01).

	E.	Students who have completed the eleventh grade and have changed legal settlement to another school corporation may complete the twelfth grade in this Corporation.
	F.	A married student living with a spouse or an emancipated minor is eligible to attend school without payment of tuition provided s/he resides in the Corporation.

G. Children of Divorced Parents

Children of divorced parents may attend school in this Corporation without the payment of tuition if one (1) parent has legal settlement in this Corporation and a timely election is made. Not later than fourteen (14) days before the first student day of the school year for which the parent seeks enrollment, the parent with physical custody must notify the Superintendent of the school corporation in which the parents seeks to have the student enrolled of the election. The election may be made only once a year.

A student who has been expelled from another school corporation or who is expelled from a nonpublic school or withdraws from a public or a nonpublic school to avoid expulsion may be enrolled in the Corporation during the actual or proposed expulsion if:

		1.	the student's parent informs the Corporation of the student's expulsion or withdrawal to avoid expulsion;
		2.	the Corporation consents to the student's enrollment;
		3.	the student agrees to the terms and conditions of enrollment established by the Corporation.

Such students will be charged tuition if they reside outside the boundaries of the Corporation.

If a student's parent fails to inform the Corporation of the expulsion or withdrawal to avoid expulsion; or the student fails to follow the terms and conditions of enrollment the Corporation may withdraw consent and prohibit the student's enrollment during the period of the actual or proposed expulsion. Before a consent is withdrawn the student must be given an opportunity for an informal meeting with the principal. At the informal meeting, the student is entitled to:

		1.	a written or verbal statement of the reasons for the withdrawal of the consent;
		2.	a summary of the evidence against him/her;
		3.	an opportunity to explain his/her conduct.

	I.	Students whose parents do not have legal settlement within the Corporation but who present evidence that they will move into the Corporation within a short period of time may enroll in the schools of this Corporation as tuition students for the time not in residence.
	J.	Students who do not have legal settlement may/will be enrolled in the special education program of this Corporation pursuant to the provisions of a Cooperative agreement. [NOTE: Check with your Cooperative agreement.]
	K.	Nonresident students may be accepted into the Summer School Program provided by this Corporation.
	L.	Transfer Students
		The Corporation may accept nonresident students if a transfer is requested by a parent or adult student (eighteen (18) or older) and agreed to by the school corporation of legal settlement that will be responsible for payment of the transfer tuition. In making the decision to accept a transfer student, the Corporation will not discriminate on any grounds delineated in Policy 2260. Other nonresident students may transfer to this Corporation upon payment of transfer tuition.

I.C. 20-18-2-11; 20-33-2-12, 20-33-8-17; 20-26-11-1; -20-26-11-2; 20-26-11-2.5
Plyer v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (2004)

Revised 7/8/02
Revised 10/11/04
Revised 1/9/06
Revised 5/22/06
Revised 11/30/06