Appellants late filed open enrollment applications for both of their daughters. The Board approved one and denied one. Appellants appealed the decision because they didn't feel their daughters should be separated. Sarah's appliation was approved because of difficulties with peers at school.

In the appeals brought to the State Board since the encactment of the Open Enrollment Law, very few have been reversed for "good cause" under the Board's discretionary power. But more importantly, the decision in this case is controlled by the precedent established in a similar factual situation. In re Kandi Becker, 10 DOE App. Dec. 285 (1993).

In that case, a requirement of "good cause" as not met when a parent wanted a younger child to attend in the same district as an older sibling who attended out of the district under a sharing agreement.

That the decision of the Albert City-Truesdale Board of Director's denying Shaundra Walker's open enrollment application due to late filing was affirmed.