Staff Analysis of the Legislation
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SUMMARY: LC 33 5811 LC 33 5913S LC 33 6622S + AM 33 1655
Provides definitions for out-of-system student, virtual instruction, and virtual school
Defines virtual instruction to exclude instruction provided through the Georgia Virtual School, the clearing-house, or a state charter virtual school.
A local school system that provides virtual instruction through a virtual school whose total student enrollment is composed of more than 5% out-0f-system students shall:
- Ensure that 90% of funds earned for out-of-system students are spent on costs for virtual instruction for those students; any excess must be returned to state treasury
- Include academic achievement results of the out-of-system students in virtual school and school district CCRPI data
- Not provide virtual instruction to out-of-system students in the current academic year if the district CCRPI score for the most recently available previous academic year is below the state average for the previous year
- Not provide virtual instruction to out-of-system students in the current academic year through a virtual school within a school system that has a CCRPI score below the state average for that year
- The prohibitions against providing virtual instruction when CCRPI score is below average shall be repealed June 30, 2019
Makes this expenditure control unwaivable
EFFECTIVE DATE:
July 1, 2016 if passed and signed by the Governor
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