Summary

Oklahoma SB 169 (Open States or Oklahoma Legislature) establishes guidelines for virtual education providers offering full-time virtual education to students who are not residents of the school district with which the provider is contracted. It makes these providers subject to the state accountability system. It also requires providers and districts to identify and provide academic performance data for these students to the State Department of Education.

Legislative Analysis

OK SB 169 states that a virtual education provider offering full-time virtual education to students who are not residents of the school district with which the provider is contracted is to be considered a site within each school district with which the provider contracts and subject to the accountability system. The legislation also requires the provider and the school district with which it contracts to identify students who are full-time virtual students and do not live in the district. Districts and providers are required to submit the necessary, detailed performance data of non-resident students receiving full-time virtual instruction to the State Department of Education.

This legislation advances digital learning by holding virtual education providers accountable for student learning and subject to the same accountability system as other schools in the districts where they contract. It also helps to inform stakeholders by requiring the collection of data on program participants and their academic performance in virtual education programs.

Legislative History

Detailed Vote History: Legiscan |  Open States

Approved by Governor Mary Fallin on 4/22/2013