With the passage of Iowa House File 2589, families can now open enroll their children at any time during the year and one local superintendent talks about how they will handle it. 

Adel-DeSoto-Minburn Superintendent Greg Dufoe says the March 1st deadline is gone for students in grades 1st through 12th along with the September 15th deadline for incoming students in kindergarten. Dufoe talks about how the district will manage the change. 

“There’s just going to be less of a hard target for a date. We could see open enrollment requests throughout any time of the year and we will process them the same way and go from there so we don’t see a huge impact for us logistically. It’s just reframing our thinking.”

The changes also include families not having to show good cause to open enroll but the receiving district can decline if they do not have the classroom space among other standards.

For a full look at House File 2589 and the changes to open enrollment you can go here.