Is it legal for a public school to refuse to let a student transfer to a different school?
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Is it legal for a public school to refuse to let a student transfer to a different school?
I recently tried to transfer to a certain school but the school I was attending refused to sign the tuition agreement for me to transfer. They told me that they didn’t want to give up the money they receive from the state to the school I was trying to transfer to. When I then tried to transfer to another school they told my parents and I that they wasn’t anyway I could transfer to that school either. I did eventually transfer to the second school but the whole process took so long because of my first school, I’m now not going to be able to graduate on time.
Asked on May 16, 2012 under Uncategorized, Michigan
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 11 years ago | Contributor
Under the education code of each state, students cannot readily transfer from school to school if that student is not in district of the particular school sought to be transferred to. The rationale is that schools lose local funding from a given town's or city's tax base for transfer between districts which they do not wish to lose given the economic situation of most school districts.
In short, it is legal fo a public school to refuse to let a student transfer to another school given the particular circumstances.
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