Session of 2025
SENATE BILL No. 45
By Committee on Education
1-21
AN ACT concerning education; relating to virtual schools; excluding
students who transfer to homeschooling or nonaccredited private
schools from the alternative calculation of graduation rates for virtual
schools; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 72-3713 and repealing the
existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 72-3713 is hereby amended to read as
follows: 72-3713. (a) Virtual schools shall be under the general
supervision of the state board. The state board may adopt any rules and
regulations relating to virtual schools that the state board deems necessary
to administer and enforce the virtual school act.
(b) (1) For purposes of accreditation by the state board, the four-year
adjusted cohort graduation rate for a virtual school shall be determined by:
(A) Only including those students enrolled in such virtual school who
had earned sufficient credits to be expected to graduate in the same school
year as such student's cohort at the time such student first enrolled in such
virtual school; and
(B) excluding those students who were enrolled in such virtual school
but transferred to homeschooling or a nonaccredited private school in
Kansas or another state.
(2) The virtual school's four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate shall
be determined in addition to the graduation rates determined for the school
district that operates the virtual school and any other high schools operated
by the school district.
(c) No virtual school shall offer or provide any financial incentive for
a student to enroll in a virtual school.
(d) As used in this section, "financial incentive" means any monetary
payment or award that is intended to encourage, entice or motivate a
student to enroll in a virtual school.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 72-3713 is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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