A. Start-up schools and conversion schools are subject to the following enrollment procedures: (1) a start-up school may either enroll students on a first-come, first-served basis or through a lottery selection process if the total number of applicants exceeds the number of spaces available at the start-up school; and (2) a conversion school shall give enrollment preference to students who are enrolled in the public school at the time it is converted into a charter school and to siblings of students admitted to or attending the charter school. The conversion school may either enroll all other students on a first-come, first-served basis or through a lottery selection process if the total number of applicants exceeds the number of spaces available at the conversion school. B. In subsequent years of its operation, a charter school shall give enrollment preference to: (1) students who have been admitted to the charter school through an appropriate admission process and remain in attendance through subsequent grades; (2) children of employees employed by the charter school; and (3) siblings of students already admitted to or attending the same charter school. History: 1978 Comp., § 22-8B-4.1, enacted by Laws 2000, ch. 82, § 3; 2021, ch. 28, § 1; 2023, ch. 33, § 2. The 2023 amendment, effective June 16, 2023, left the provisions of this section unamended. The 2021 amendment, effective July 1, 2021, provided an enrollment preference for students whose parents are employees of the charter school; and in Subsection B, added new Paragraph B(2) and redesignated former Paragraph B(2) as Paragraph B(3). Applicability. — Laws 2021, ch. 28, § 2 provided that the provisions of Laws 2021, ch. 28, § 1 apply to the 2021-2022 school year and subsequent school years.
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