GARDEN GROVE : Parents to Get Open Enrollment Leaflets
To better inform parents about new open enrollment options, the Garden Grove Unified School District will be distributing brochures describing the application procedures.
The brochures, written in Spanish, English, Vietnamese and Korean, will explain how open enrollment will work during the coming school year.
The Board of Education revised district attendance boundaries in January and under the new rules, parents may choose which schools their children will attend next September. These choices are subject to space availability and other conditions, said spokesman Alan Trudell.
The pamphlets will include application deadlines, student transfer procedures, and appeal steps. Students may attend any school in the district that has space so long as no neighborhood children are displaced. Children will be receiving the brochures at school and will bring them home within the next few weeks, he said.
Requests for transfers within the district must be submitted to the Child Welfare and Attendance Office by May 1.
If the number of requests exceeds the available space at a campus, a random drawing will determine priority and space on a waiting list. Parental choice applications submitted after May 1 will be placed on the waiting list in the order received, Trudell said.
Students will be permitted only one transfer selection each school year. However, the district will accept additional transfer requests for reasons relating to child care, parent employment location, and providing a child with a specific instructional program not offered at the local school. Those transfer requests will be given priority provided they are submitted by May 1, Trudell said.
No district transportation will be provided for students attending schools through transfers.
The Garden Grove School District serves most of Garden Grove and portions of Santa Ana, Anaheim, Westminster, Cypress, Stanton and Fountain Valley.
For more information, call the Child Welfare and Attendance Office at (714) 663-6391.
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