House Bill 523

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Title AN ACT relating to digital learning.
Bill Documents Introduced
Bill Request Number 1404
Sponsor J. Carney
Summary of Original Version 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.
Index Headings of Original Version Education, Elementary and Secondary - Digital Learning and Workforce Development Pilot Program, establishment of
Education, Elementary and Secondary - Virtual school program, allowing districts to participate in
Teachers - Virtual school program, establishing certification requirement for teachers in
Administrative Regulations and Proceedings - Kentucky Board of Edcuation, virtual school program, establishment of
Administrative Regulations and Proceedings - Kentucky Board of Edcuation, virtual school program, funding

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02/17/17
  • introduced in House
02/21/17
  • to Education (H)


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