Colorado Bill: SB 139 Status: 03/19/2013 – Senate Third Reading Passed; Introduced In House – Assigned to Education Relevant Elements: 1, 8 SB 139 passed the Senate on March 19 and is now in the House Education Committee. It would add requirements to ensure every high school student has the opportunity to take at least…
State Highlights
This year, the 2014 Digital Learning Report Card features individual State Policy Profiles, examining some of the 422 pieces of digital learning legislation enacted over the past four years. Utah’s 2013 Student Achievement Backpack (UT SB 82) is featured as an example of data backpack policies. To learn more, read the State Policy Profile for Utah in the full Report Card.
- The Statewide Online Education Program saw enrollment increases of more than 300% last year, based on number of course requests of any credit value.
- In part this was due to extension of eligibility to home and private school students.
- Most students choose to enroll in maximum allowable number of credits.
Read more about legislation passed in Utah from 2014.