New Mexico Bill: SB 338 Status: 02/27/2013 – PASSED/S (32-7); House Education Committee Relevant Elements: 2 Sponsored by Senate Education Committee Ranking Member Gay Kernan, R-Hobbs, passed the Senate 32-7 with amendments on February 27. As amended it would establish a temporary moratorium on the approval of new applications to form full-time virtual charter schools…
Digital Learning Now! State Report: New Hampshire SB 82
New Hampshire Bill: SB 82 Status: 02/20/2013 – S Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment #2013-0328s, 3/7/13; SC10 Relevant Elements: 4 Sponsored by Sen. Nancy Stiles, R-Hampton, passed the Senate Health, Education and Human Services Committee on February 20. It would establish a commission for the purpose of identifying strategies needed for developing and…
5 Mar 2013
Digital Learning Now! State Report: Florida HB 7029
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…
5 Mar 2013
Digital Learning Now! State Report: Idaho SB 1028
Idaho Bill: SB 1028 Status: 03/01/2013 – Reported delivered to Governor on 02/28/13 Relevant Elements: 4 Sponsored by the Senate Education Committee, passed the House on February 22 and is pending delivery to Republican Gov. Butch Otter. It would change the existing mastery advancement pilot program to a program offered to any school district or…
5 Mar 2013
Digital Learning Now! State Report: Idaho SB 1091
Idaho Bill: SB 1091 Status: 03/01/2013 – Read second time as amended, filed for Third reading Relevant Elements: 7 Sponsored by the Senate Education Committee, passed the Senate Education Committee on February 21 and was amended by the Committee of the Whole and is now pending a third reading. It would create an online course…
4 Mar 2013
Digital Learning Now! State Report: California SB 714
California Bill: SB 714 Status: 02/25/2013 – Read first time Relevant Elements: 4 Sponsored by Senate Budget Subcommittee on Education Chair Marty Block, D-San Diego, was introduced on February 22 in the Senate. The bill as introduced does not contain text; it is a placeholder. The text will come later. The bill states only that…
4 Mar 2013
Digital Learning Now! State Report: Arizona HB 1293
Arizona Bill: HB 1293 Status: 03/06/2013 – THIRD READ 16 12 2 0 Y PASSED; TRANSMIT TO HOUSE Relevant Elements: 4 Sponsored by Sen. Chester Crandell, R-Heber, passed the Senate Education Committee on February 21 and the Appropriations Committee on February 26. It would establish the outcome-based funding pilot program. Each participating school district and charter…
4 Mar 2013
6th Davos Philanthropic Roundtable “RevolutiOnline.edu – Online Education Changing the World”
Speakers discussed startegies that philanthropists are using to expand online education and accelerate access to high level education. The panel consisted of: Thomas Friedman, Foreign Affairs columnist, The New York Times (moderator) Bill Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Rafael Reif, President, MIT Larry Summers, President Emeritus, Harvard University Daphne Koller, Co-Founder and Co-CEO,…
21 Feb 2013