SB 1360 Summary

• Requires persons offering supplemental educational services to be state-approved providers, with applicants undergoing level 2 background screening and meeting eligibility requirements that prohibit convictions for sexual offenses, crimes against children, terrorism, murder, kidnapping, theft, forgery, and related felonies.

• Establishes an external complaint procedure allowing parents and public schools to file complaints with school districts against supplemental educational services providers for fraudulent billing, misrepresentation, illegal marketing, and low-quality tutoring, with substantiated complaints resulting in permanent removal from state-approved lists.

• Requires the Department of Education to evaluate supplemental educational services providers annually and assign service designations (excellent, satisfactory, or unsatisfactory) based primarily on student learning gains, progress reports, and students' report cards, with results published by July 1.

• Mandates the department's supplemental educational services program undergo annual external audits by independent certified public accountants with no personal interest in the program.

• Requires school districts beginning in fiscal year 2014-2015 to use supplemental academic instruction categorical funds to provide summer school programs for K-12 students who are at risk of academic failure, desire elective courses, or come from families with income below 200 percent of federal poverty guidelines.