Ms. Kruger brought this appeal asking the State Board to reverse a decision of the Saydel Consolidated School District Board which denied her application for open enrollment into the District for her son, Devin, beginning in the 1997-98 school year, on the grounds of "insufficient classroom space." Appellant initially filed her application for open enrollment with the Des Moines District for her kindergartner to attend school in Saydel. The Des Moines District granted her application. The ALJ and the hearing panel found that the District Board has a policy that defines insufficient classroom space that it had applied consistently. Insufficient classroom space is a valid reason for which a receiving district may deny a timely filed request for open enrollment into the district. It appears that the Board's decision was consistent with state law, the rules of the Department of Education and its own policy.

The administrative law judge and hearing panel recommended that the decision of the Board of Directors of the Saydel Consolidated School District, made on April 21, 1997, that denied Ms. Kruger's application for open enrollment for Devin to attend kindergarten in the Saydel District for the 1997-1998 school year, be affirmed.