Please note that the June 5 enrollment deadline is coming up.   

Friday, June 5 is an important deadline for several categories of students:

• All new applicants to virtual schools (those who have applied to enroll in a virtual school for the first time for the 2009-10 school year) who have received firm approval letters from one or more virtual schools saying they have an opportunity to enroll must notify the school they intend to attend no later than June 5 that they intend to attend it in order to be allowed to enroll for the 2009-10 school year.  Each school will explain to you in its firm approval letter whether you may respond by sending in a written “Intent to Attend” form or by calling or e-mailing.
• Current virtual school students who have applied to enroll in a virtual school that is not located in the district where they currently attend virtual school must notify the school they intend to attend no later than June 5 that they intend to attend it in order to be allowed to enroll for the 2009-10 school year.  Again, each school will explain to you in its firm approval letter whether you may respond by sending it a written “Intent to Attend” form or by calling or e-mailing.  (However, if current virtual school students want to return to a virtual school that is located in the district where they currently attend virtual school, they have until September 1 to enroll in the school in their current district.)

Additional information

Further detailed information about virtual schools, the open enrollment process and the Wisconsin Coalition of Virtual School Families is available at our website.

Contact the virtual school to which your child has applied if you have questions about acceptance forms, such as how to complete the forms or where to send them, or if you have other detailed questions about procedures that are specific to each school. Additional information about the open enrollment process is available at the web site for the Department of Public Instruction at this link.

Wisconsin Coalition of Virtual School Families 

Open Enrollment Update

For Virtual School Families 

Background 

The Wisconsin Coalition of Virtual School Families provides information and support for families who are interested in having their children educated in virtual schools and advocates for the interests of those families. 

Consistent with our role as a source of information, we provided status updates about the virtual school open enrollment process on Thursday, May 7, and Friday, May 8, 2009.  We hope that those updates, along with the extensive Question and Answer list from the Department of Public Instruction dated May 6, 2009, have helped provide useful information about the complicated virtual school open enrollment process and about how the enrollment cap of 5,250 virtual school students for the 2009-10 school year is being administered.  

This current update provides information about several additional questions that have come up about the process, including questions about the waiting list and about the deadlines for enrolling. 

Please keep in mind that the information presented here represents the current interpretation of the Wisconsin laws governing virtual schools based on the state statutes and on the interpretation and implementation of the law by DPI.  The WCVSF does not support all aspects of the current law. In particular, the WCVSF opposed the passage of a cap on virtual school enrollment.  Our goal in these updates is to help explain how the law in its current form works, answer questions about it, and help facilitate its implementation in a manner that is consistent with the state statutes.