(1) Expelled students and any at-risk students otherwise eligible to attend sixth through ninth grades and under seventeen years of age may voluntarily apply to any pilot school. No student shall be compelled to attend a pilot school. Each pilot school shall devise its own application and admission procedures. An application shall, at a minimum, include:
The name, address, gender, race, ethnicity, and age of the student;
If the student was expelled, the reasons for the expulsion, the date of the expulsion,and the disciplinary record of the student;
Whether the student is applying to be a full-time residential student;
A statement from the student explaining why he or she would benefit from the pilotschool program;
Academic records for the prior three years, including classes taken, grades or evaluations received, grade point average, results of any diagnostic testing, and results of standardized tests;
The student's and parent's, guardian's, or legal custodian's consent to submit to drugtesting if required by the pilot school;
Information concerning the financial resources and income of the parent or legalguardian of the student consistent with the state board's guidelines promulgated pursuant to section 22-38-104 (7);
Information about the extracurricular activities, sports, hobbies, or out-of-school employment of the student before expulsion; and
Any other application information required by the pilot school to which the student isapplying.
Each student is eligible to apply to the pilot school serving the county where thestudent resides. A student may also apply to any other pilot school that has not filled all of its sixty student slots.
Students admitted to a pilot school may continue to be enrolled at the pilot schoolafter the expiration of any period of expulsion from their original schools. Students of pilot schools who were not originally enrolled as expelled students may continue to be enrolled pursuant to the policies and regulations adopted by the pilot school.
Students enrolled in a pilot school pursuant to this section are in addition to studentsreceiving educational services from the pilot school under an agreement entered into pursuant to section 22-33-203 (2). Students receiving such educational services shall not be subject to the admissions requirements that are applied to enrolling students, but shall be eligible to receive services as provided under the agreement.
Source: L. 96: Entire article added, p. 1818, § 5, effective July 1. L. 97: (4) added, p. 592, § 27, effective April 30.