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33	28		ENGROSSED HOUSE
34		-	BILL NO. 3645 By: Dills~~, Waldron,~~ and ~~Davis~~
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	29	+	BILL NO. 3645 By: Dills and Waldron of the
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43	40		An Act relating to virtual charter schools ; amending
44	41		70 O.S. 2021, Section 3-145.8, which relates to
45	42		virtual charter schoo l attendance; modifying
46	43		attendance requirements for virtual charter school
47	44		alternative education program s; defining term;
48	45		clarifying timing requirement for completion of
49	46		instructional activi ties; authorizing virtual charter
50	47		school alternative education program to request a
51	48		certain student waiver; directing office of
52	49		accreditation to review the request and make a
53	50		determination; requiring continued attendance while
54	51		waiver is being reviewed; updating internal
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59	58		BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
60	59		SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 70 O.S. 2021, Section 3 -145.8, is
61	60		amended to read as follows:
62	61		Section 3-145.8 A. It shall be the duty of each virtual
63	62		charter school approved and sponsored by the Statewide Virtual
64	63		School Board pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 -145.3 of Title
65	64		70 of the Oklahoma Sta tutes this title to keep a full and complete
66	65		record of the attend ance of all students enrolled in the v irtual
67	66		charter school in one of the s tudent information systems approved by
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95	93		the State Department of Education and locally selected by the
96	94		virtual school from the ap proved list.
97	95		B. By July 1, 2020, the governing body o f each virtual charter
98	96		school shall adopt an attendance policy. The policy may allow
99	97		attendance to be a proportional amount of the required attendance
100	98		policy provisions based upon the date of enrollmen t of the student.
101	99		The attendance policy shall include the following provisions:
102	100		1. The first date of attendance and membership shall be the
103	101		first date the student completes an instructional activity.
104	102		2. A student who attends a virtual charter school sha ll be
105	103		considered in attendance for a quarter if the st udent:
106	104		a. completes instructional acti vities on no less than
107	105		ninety percent (90%) of the days within the quarter,
108	106		b. is on pace for on-time completion of the course as
109	107		defined by the governing board of the virtual charter
110	108		school, or
111	109		c. completes no less th an seventy-two instructional
112	110		activities within the quarter of the academic year.
113	111		3. For a student who does not meet any of the criteria set
114	112		forth in paragraph 1 or 2 of this subsection, the amount of
115	113		attendance recorded shall be the greater of:
116	114		a. the number of school days during which the st udent
117	115		completed the instructional act ivities during the
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146	143		b. the number of school days proportional to the
147	144		percentage of the course that has been completed, or
148	145		c. the number of school days proportional to the
149	146		percentage of the required minimum numbe r of completed
150	147		instructional activiti es during the quarter.
151	148		C. For the purposes of this section, "instructional activities "
152	149		shall include instructional meetings wi th a teacher, completed
153	150		assignments that are used to r ecord a grade for a student that is
154	151		factored into the student's grade for the semester during which the
155	152		assignment is completed, testing and school -sanctioned field trips,
156	153		and orientation.
157	154		D. A student enrolled in a virtual charter school alternative
158	155		education program designated by the State Department of Education
159	156		who attends a full abbreviated school day shall be counted in full
160	157		attendance for purposes of computing the average daily attendance
161	158		and average daily me mbership of the virtual charter school . For the
162	159		purposes of this subsection, "full abbreviated school day" shall
163	160		mean one hundred eighty-nine (189) hours per quarter or seven
164	161		hundred fifty-six (756) hours per school year.
165	162		E. Each statewide virtual charter school approved and sponsored
166	163		by the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board p ursuant to the
167	164		provisions of Section 3-145.3 of this title shall offer a student
168	165		orientation, notify the parent or legal guardian and each student
169	166		who enrolls in that school of the requirement to participate in the
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197	193		student orientation, and require all stud ents enrolled to complete
198	194		the student orientation prior to completing any other instructional
199	195		activity. The Statewide Virtual Charter School Board shall
200	196		promulgate rules to develop materials for orientation.
201	197		E. F. Any student that who is behind pace and does not complete
202	198		an instructional activity for a fifteen-school-day period (15)
203	199		consecutive days, including weekends, shall be withdrawn for
204	200		truancy. The virtual charter schoo l shall submit a notification to
205	201		the parent or legal guardian of a student who has been withdrawn for
206	202		truancy or is approaching truancy.
207	203		F. A G. 1. Except as provid ed in paragraph 2 of this
208	204		subsection, a student who is reported for truancy two times in the
209	205		same school year shall be withdrawn a nd prohibited from enrolling in
210	206		the same virtual charter school for the rem ainder of the school
211	207		year.
212	208		G. 2. If a student is enrolled in a virtual charter school
213	209		alternative education program designated by the State Depart ment of
214	210		Education, the virtual charter school may request a waiver of the
215	211		enrollment prohibition from the Department on behalf of a student
216	212		enrolled at the virtual charter school who is reported for truancy
217	213		two times in the same school year. The office of accreditation
218	214		shall review the waiver request and determine whet her the student
219	215		should be allowed to con tinue attending the virtual charter school.
220	216		The student shall continue attending the virtual charter school
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248	243		while the waiver is being re viewed and until a final de termination
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250	245		H. The governing body of each statewide virtual charter school
251	246		shall develop, adopt and post on the school's website a policy
252	247		regarding consequences for a student 's failure to attend school and
253	248		complete instructional activities. The policy shall s tate, at a
254	249		minimum, that if a student fails to consistently attend school a nd
255	250		complete instructional activities after receiving a notification
256	251		pursuant to subsection E F of this section and reasonable
257	252		intervention strategies have been implemented, a studen t shall be
258	253		subject to certain conseque nces including withdrawal from the sc hool
259	254		for truancy.
260	255		H. I. If a statewide virtual charter school withdraws a student
261	256		pursuant to subsections F and G and H of this section, the vi rtual
262	257		charter school shall immediatel y notify the student 's resident
263	258		district in writing of the student's disenrollment.
264	259		I. J. The provisions of subsections F, G and, H and I of this
265	260		section shall not be in effect until the implementation of
266	261		subsection H of Sect ion 3-145.3 of this title.
267	262		J. K. The Statewide Virtual Charter Scho ol Board may promulgate
268	263		rules to implement the provisions of th is section.
269	264		SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2022.
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