These timely-filed applications were denied on the basis that the departure of these students from the District would have an adverse affect the District's desegregation policy. Appellants appealed the denial of their requests because they felt their circumstances merited a hardship exception. The daycare hardships of the Appellants did not meet the statutory good cause requirements of the Open Enrollment Law. Nor were they considered of the magnitude that would warrant the exercise of the State Board's discretion under Iowa Code section 282.18(18).

The decisions of the Board of Directors of the Des Moines Independent Community School District made on February 2, 1999, and May 4, 1999, denying the open enrollment applications for the Appellants' children, were affirmed.