Cedar Rapids Gazette: Iowa’s smallest and largest school districts have lost students to open enrollment for more than the past decade, a pattern that has compounded existing budgetary strains for some districts and is likely to continue, one state analyst said. Iowa’s open enrollment law, which took effect in 1989, allows parents to move their children to a school outside the district in which they reside. The student’s home district then sends the receiving district that student’s tuition dollars – an amount of $6,121 for the 2014-2015 school year. In the 2013-2014 school year, more than 28,000 Iowa students used open enrollment to move to another district, resulting in about $170 million in tuition moving from one district to another.