Open Enrollment Flexibility Final Legislation
The bill creates an additional exception that applies to districts that otherwise entirely prohibit open enrollment or only accept open enrollment of students from adjacent districts. The bill requires these districts to permit a student who is not a native student of the district to open enroll in the district if the student’s parent is an active duty member of the armed forces of the United States who is stationed in Ohio and who provides the district a copy of the parent’s official written order verifying the parent’s status as an active duty member of the armed forces.