Key point: Open Enrollment:

 

One of the key points made at the recent Evansville School Board meeting was that open enrollment is like having vacant seats on an airplane prior to takeoff---the district is given a marginal cost and not the full amount and thus it is not appropriate for a district to be near full capacity and then take open enrollment students and then have to build more classrooms or schools to handle the resulting overage---enrollment projections are used, and the whole point is that the district is taking students to fill slots that otherwise would not be filled.