Kentucky House Bill 523 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 17 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-21 - to Education (H)
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 160 to establish the Digital Learning and Workforce Development Pilot Project and identify the program's purposes; define terms; provide the methods for creation of virtual school programs under the Digital Learning and Workforce Development Pilot Project; require a local board of education authorizing a virtual school project to adopt certain policies necessary for the governance of the project; establish a process for a virtual school project to allow enrollment of nonresident students and the procedures for a parent to enroll a nonresident student into the program; establish certification requirements for certified staff employed by the program; allow a local board of education to determine how a resident student enrolled in the program may participate in the district's extracurricular activities; set instructional time requirements; set academic content, assessment, and accountability requirements for the program; allow an authorizing board to contract for education services; authorize and provide guidance for the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to calculate a program's average daily attendance; provide procedures for an authorizing board to address a student enrolled in a program who fails to respond to assignments and directives; exempt students enrolling and participating in a program from certain requirements regarding attendance and physical presence; amend KRS 157.350 to allow a district to count a nonresident pupil who attends a virtual school program in the district's average daily attendance.

AN ACT relating to digital learning.

Rep. John Carney [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-21	House	to Education (H)
2017-02-17	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/HB523.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB523/bill.pdf