reconvene regular meeting: 7:00 pm - Irvine Unified School District

Item No. 15 c.
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DESCRIPTION
INTER-DISTRICT TRANSFERS
The Irvine Unified School District is currently designated as a
Basic Aid district, which means that local property taxes now fund
our schools. To ensure that we maximize district resources for
those students who reside within our attendance boundaries, we
must begin limiting the enrollment of out-of-district students.
We understand that this change in practice will have impact for the
families who have been attending our schools on approved interdistrict
permits. In the 2008-09 school year, in order to facilitate a
smooth transition back to home schools, students who were
attending on an approved inter-district transfer were permitted to
matriculate as follows, pending space availability and program
capacity. Students who were currently enrolled in a primary grade
(K-3) were granted permission to continue through grade 3;
students who were currently enrolled in an upper grade (4-6) were
granted permission to continue through grade 6; students who were
currently enrolled in middle school (7-8) were granted permission
to complete grade 8; and students who were currently enrolled in
high school (9-12) were granted permission to remain through
grade 12.
For students enrolled in our K-8 schools, primary grades are
defined as K-3, upper grades are defined as 4-5, and middle school
is defined as 6-8. Therefore, our K-8 students were granted
permission to continue through the end of grade 3 as primary
students, through the end of grade 5 as upper grade students, and
through the end of grade 8 as middle school students.
All students who were exiting a grade level transition at the end of
the 2008-09 school year were granted a one year grace period and
given permission to remain enrolled through the end of the 2009-
10 school year, pending space availability and program capacity.
Beginning with the 2009-10 school year, the Irvine Unified School
District is no longer accepting any new inter-district transfers, with
the exception of students of employees. As has been our past
practice, based on space availability and program capacity, we will
continue to approve employee permits.
Last year Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) employees from the
Orange County Department of Education, who work on our
campuses, were advised that they would be treated as district
employees. In light of that communication, OCDE employees
were granted a grace period for the 2010-11 school year.
However, effective with the 2011-12 school year, it is the staff's
recommendation to no longer accept children from Orange County
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