(KTTS News) — The Missouri House Elementary and Secondary Education Committee is holding hearings on the Public School Open Enrollment Act.
If passed into law, it would let students transfer to virtually any public school in the state.
The Missouri News Network reports that smaller districts are worried the bill would make it difficult for them to compete with larger school districts.
St. Clair Superintendent Kyle Kruse says if the Public School Open Enrollment Act becomes law, smaller districts like his would not only lose students, they’d lose state funding.
For example, Kruse says if 100 students left his district, the school would lose over $400,000 in state funding.
