Florida
Bill: HB 7029
Status: 02/22/2013 – House Filed
Relevant Elements: 2, 7, 8
Sponsored by Rep. Jose Diaz, R-Miami, was prefiled February 22. This bill would:
- Develop an online catalog of available digital learning courses that has a description of the course, passage and completion rates, and a way for teachers and students users to give evaluative feedback.
- Provide requirements for funding a home education student enrolled in the Florida Virtual School.
- Provide reporting requirements relating to Florida Virtual School Global.
- Authorize school districts to provide part-time virtual instruction for k-12 students in all courses.
- Revise requirements for approval of provider of virtual instruction programs and provide requirements for conditional approval of a provider without sufficient experience.
- Create a new section on the district innovation school pilot program that authorizes a district school board to operate a district innovation school as a pilot program.
- Innovation schools would adopt and implement a blended learning program that could include differentiated instruction, data-driven placement, flexible scheduling, differentiated teaching, and self-paced learning.
- Provide delivery models for implementation of a school wide blended learning program.
- Exempt district innovation schools generally from the K-20 Education Code, but provide specific statutes within the code with which the schools must comply.
- Require identifiers for courses to designate their use for blended learning courses.
- Remove restrictions for students taking an online course across district lines.
- Prohibit a school district from requiring a student to take a course outside the school day that is in addition to the student’ s given courses for the term.