Open Enrollment is on the Menu—But Can You Order It? PDF - This paper concentrates on one aspect of school choice—open enrollment. Depending on the policy, open enrollment can offer a student's choice of schools within district boundaries (intradistrict choice) or schools outside of the boundaries of the district (interdistrict). State policymakers decide whether schools may choose to participate or whether they are required to participate. This report provides a 50-state analysis of open enrollment policies across the United States. (Marga Torrence Mikulecky, ECS, June 2013) ...

From the ECS State Policy Database: Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....

State Policies for Open Enrollment Database - This searchable database contains information about the state policies for open enrollment in each state. It includes individual state profiles, comparisons of state policies across several states and predetermined reports. (Education Commssion of the States, 2013)...