HB 1376 Summary

• Removes superintendent authority to deny student enrollment in the North Dakota Center for Distance Education, except as specified in the law.

• Prohibits resident school districts from denying open enrollment to approved virtual schools.

• Changes superintendent reporting requirement from biennial to annual reports on virtual instruction academic performance comparisons, with reports alternating between legislative assembly (odd-numbered years) and legislative management (even-numbered years).

• Students enrolled in approved virtual schools do not generate school district size weighting factors for state funding purposes.

• Allows student transfers to another school district at any time during the school year if the student was a victim of documented school violence, the school is declared unsafe, or the school requires program improvement for six consecutive years; receiving district must reimburse resident district for all education and transportation costs.