HB 14-1382 Summary

• Redefines "on-line program" and "on-line school" to emphasize teacher-directed instruction through digital learning strategies that provide students choice over time, place, path, and teacher-guided modality of learning.

• Requires on-line programs and schools to document student compliance with compulsory attendance through participation in educational activities approved by the authorizer, which may include assessments, in-person instruction, and synchronous/asynchronous internet-based activities.

• Reduces student record transfer timeframe from thirty to fourteen days when students transfer between on-line programs/schools and traditional schools or charter schools, with secure electronic means required when available.

• Creates a K-12 On-Line Education Task Force to review best practices for authorizing multi-district on-line schools and recommend quality standards for authorizers, with recommendations due by January 1, 2015, and the task force repealing July 1, 2015.

• Establishes pilot programs for innovative on-line education strategies including objective student achievement measures, competency-based student counting, tiered interventions, and student requirement/responsibility identification, with annual progress reports required.

• Appropriates $47,659 from the general fund for fiscal year 2014-15 to the Department of Education for implementation of the act.