Dive Brief:

• Charging tuition to students who attend schools out of their school or district boundaries is permitted in 26 states, and some districts in those states charge families tens of thousands of dollars for out-of-boundary transfer, according to a report from the Reason Foundation, a nonprofit Libertarian think tank.
• According to the analysis, five states — Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Oklahoma and Utah — have used four of the five recommended practices by the Reason Foundation for open enrollments, including allowing students to transfer to any public school within and across districts. 
• Decreases in student enrollment during the COVID-19 pandemic may cause some districts to consider shifts in enrollment policies, including ways to better meet enrollment goals that align with school capacity limits. The foundation said one of the reasons for rejecting transfer requests is if the desired school has few available student seats.

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