| (a) Application deadline. For admission to a charter school,
a charter holder shall:
(1) require the applicant to complete and submit an application
not later than a reasonable deadline the charter holder establishes; and
(2) on receipt of more acceptable applications for admission
under this section than available positions in the school:
(A) except as permitted by federal law, fill the available
positions by lottery; or
(B) subject to subsection (b) of this section, fill the available
positions in the order in which all timely applications were received.
(b) Newspaper publication. A charter holder may fill applications
for admission under subsection (a)(2)(B) of this section only if it published
a notice of the opportunity to apply for admission to the charter school.
A notice published under this subsection must:
(1) state the application deadline; and
(2) be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the
community in which the school is located not later than the seventh day before
the application deadline.
(c) Maximum enrollment; transfers. Total enrollment shall not
exceed the maximum number of students approved in the open-enrollment charter.
Students who reside outside the geographic boundaries stated in the open-enrollment
charter shall not be admitted to the charter school until all eligible applicants
who reside within the boundaries and have submitted a timely application have
been enrolled. Then, if the open-enrollment charter so provides, the charter
holder may admit transfer students to the charter school in accordance with
the terms of the open-enrollment charter.
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