From the ECS State Policy Database Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning

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State Status/Date Level Summary CA Signed into law 09/2012 P-12 From bill summary: Commencing with the 2014–15 school year, authorizes, for purposes of computing average daily attendance, the inclusion of pupils in grades 9-12, under the immediate supervision and control of a certificated employee of the school district or county office of education who is delivering synchronous, online instruction, provided that this instruction meets specified criteria. Requires, if a district or county office of education elects to offer synchronous, online instruction, that the district or county office of education provide all pupils who choose to enroll in an online course access to the computer hardware or software necessary for the pupil to participate in the course. Requires the superintendent of public instruction to establish rules and regulations for purposes of implementing these provisions and requires those rules and regulations to, at a minimum, address specified matters. Authorizes the superintendent of public instruction to provide guidance regarding a district or county office of education's ability to provide synchronous, online instruction. Makes all of these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2019, and repeals them on January 1, 2020. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0601-0650/ab_644_bill_20120926_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 644 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov MI Signed into law 06/2012 P-12 Redefines the role of the Michigan Virtual University and requires that it establish the Center for Online Learning Research and Innovation which would research, design and recommend online and blended learning education delivery models, online assessments, criteria to monitor and evaluate cyber schools and online course providers, analyze student performance and course completion data from cyber schools and online course providers, design professional development for online learning, as well as a number of other related requirements as specified in statute. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2011-2012/billconcurred/House/pdf/2012-HCB-5372.pdf Title: H.B. 5372 Source: legislature.mi.gov OH Signed into law 06/2012 P-12 Defines "blended learning" and "digital learning." Permits a local district, community school, STEM school, college-preparatory boarding school, or chartered non-public school to operate all or part of a school using a blended learning model. Requires the department to be notified if a school is operating using a blended learning model or is ceasing operating using a blended learning model. Directs the state board to revise operating standards for districts and nonpublic schools to include standards for the operation of blended learning. Requires the blended learning standards to provide for (1) Revised student-teacher ratios; (2) Extent to which school is obligated to provide students with digital learning tools; (3) Student ability to progress upon demonstration of mastery; (4) Exemption from minimum school day/year requirements; and (5) Adequate provisions for staff qualifications, instructional materials and equipment, facilities, student admission, promotion, and graduation. When the state board is adopting standards or model curricula, directs the department to also provide infomation on the use of blended or digital learning. Clarifies that an Internet- or computer-based community school is not a blended learning school authorized under these provisions. Pages 10-11, 66-68 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf Title: S.B. 316 - Blended Learning Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us OK Adopted 06/2012 P-12 Pursuant to Senate Bill 280 these rules create the Oklahoma Supplemental Online Course Program, which authorizes schools districts to spend state-aid dollars for students to enroll in supplemental courses provided by third party providers. The rules permit students enrolled in their district to take up to 5 hours of online instruction, while the remaining hour will be provided physically on a school campus. The rules delineate roles and responsibilities of local education agencies as to the proper implementation of supplemental online courses. In addition, the rules clearly dictate that all students are eligible to take supplemental online courses. Title: OK ADC 210:15-34-1 through 16 Source: Westlaw/StateNet CO Signed into law 06/2012 P-12 Revises current statute to distinguish between online schools and online programs. Incorporates online programs into statutes that apply to online schools. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2012a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/A386D89EDA600136872579820026D8D7?Open&file=1240_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1240 (section 14) Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us IA Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 This section requires the department to develop and establish an online learning program model. Specifies that not more than 0.18% of students statewide and not more than 1.0% of a sending district's enrollment can be enrolled in courses where the content is delivered primarily over the internet. Directs the department to conduct an annual survey of students taking course delivered over the internet to determine if students are receiving competent private instruction from a licenses practitioner. Requires the department to submit an annual report to the General Assembly by January 15. Establishes an online learning program model and a statewide initiative within the department to provide distance education to high school students statewide. Requests the Legislative Council establish an online learning interim study committee and requires findings and recommendations in a report to the General Assembly by December 14, 2012. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/SF2284.pdf Title: S.F. 2284 -- Division IV Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us CO Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 The bill directs the department of education to commission a study of the issues surrounding integration of digital learning into the statewide system of public education in Colorado. The study, at a minimum, should examine the following related to digital learning: student eligibility for and access to digital learning; demonstration of students' competencies based on assessments; quality of instruction, content and materials; financial benefits and impacts; required infrastructure; accountability; credit transfer, etc. The study is funded by gifts, grants, or donations. If the department does not receive sufficient moneys to complete the study, it will not commission the study. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2012a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/1F0EB7942C7D50B687257981007DB493?Open&file=1124_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1124 Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us MN Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Directs all postsecondary institutions offering teacher preparation programs approved by the Minnesota Board of Teaching to include in their preparation programs the knowledge and skills teacher candidates need to deliver digital and blended learning and curriculum and engage students with technology. Requires staff development activities related to enhancing teacher content knowledge and instructional skills to accommodate the delivery of digital and blended learning and curriculum and engage students with technology. Includes effective delivery of digital and blended learning and curriculum and engaging students with technology among specified staff development goals. Defines "digital learning," "blended learning," "online learning," and "online learning provider." Outlines guidelines for the Department of Education to review and approve/disapprove digital learning providers. Directs the Online Learning Advisory Council to develop and maintain a catalog of publicly available digital learning content currently aligned to Minnesota academic standards. Directs the Online Learning Advisory Council to review Minnesota rules and laws to determine which, if any, inhibit online learning. Requires that the results of this review be included in a report to the legislature. Allows basic skills revenue to be used to meet students' needs related to digital learning. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bin/showPDF.php Title: S.F. 1528 Source: http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/ MD Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Authorizes certain county boards of education to request that the State Department of Education develop or review and approve certain online courses and services. Requires that the Department develop or review and approve certain courses and services or delegate that authority to certain county boards; Requires that the Department ensure that online courses and services developed or reviewed and approved include specifications that allow for access by students with disabilities, including blindness. http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/sb/sb0674t.pdf Title: S.B. 674 Source: mlis.state.md.us MD Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Establishes the Maryland Advisory Council for Virtual Learning within the Department of Education, with the mission of the council to encourage and support the education of students in accordance with national standards of online learning and state law. Requires that the council meet four times per year and make recommendations regarding subject areas specified in the bill. http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/hb/hb0745t.pdf Title: H.B. 745 Source: Westlaw/StateNet MD Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Authorizing a county board of education to procure online courses and services that the county board has approved as being high quality and in alignment with specified State standards; requiring a county board that has approved an online course to submit a specified report to the State Department of Education; and making the Act an emergency measure. http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/hb/hb1219t.pdf Title: H.B. 1219 Source: mlis.state.md.us MD Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Requires the State Department of Education to conduct a study on the costs and benefits (specifications detailed in bill) of establishing an electronic reader pilot program in certain public middle schools or high schools in the State; Requires the Department to determine whether to establish the pilot program, and report findings and recommendations to the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2012. http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/hb/hb1220t.pdf Title: H.B. 1220 Source: mlis.state.md.us GA Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Directs the department of education to develop a clearinghouse through which local school systems and charter schools may offer distance learning courses to students in other local school systems and charter schools. Provides procedures and requirements for offering a course through the clearinghouse, including department oversight duties. Establishes student enollment requirements and procedures. Provides for course fees and payment. Provides for the assignment of course grades. Permits the department to determine the manner in which an online clearinghouse course may be offered as a dual enrollment program, may be offered to students enrolled in nonpublic schools or a home study program, or may be offered at times outside the normal school day or school week. Authorizes the department to coordinate the clearinghouse with the Georgia Virtual School. Provides that nothing in these provisions prohibits a local school system or charter school from offering a distance learning course through any means other than the clearinghouse. http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/127714.pdf Title: H.B. 175 Source: www.legis.ga.gov GA Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Directs the state board to establish rules and regulations to maximize the number of students, beginning with students entering ninth grade in the 2014-2015 school year (Class of 2018), who complete at least one course containing online learning through (1) an online course offered by the Georgia Virtual School, (2) an online dual enrollment course offered by a postsecondary institution, or (3) an approved provider. Directs the state board to make all end-of-course tests available online, and to establish rules and regulations to maximize the number of students and school systems using such online assessments. Repeals provision that gave public school students priority for enrollment in the Georgia Virtual School. Bars a local school system from prohibiting a student from taking a Georgia Virtual School course, regardless of whether the student's school offers the same course. Permits students enrolled in the Georgia Virtual School to be counted by a district for state funding purposes. Repeals certain provision relating to fund requests by the state board for the Georgia Virtual School grant account. Provides that funds from the account are to be used to cover department costs associated with the maintenance of the Georgia Virtual School, such as new course development, credit recovery, blended learning training, and operating a clearinghouse. Removes provision requiring state board to adopt provisions allowing students to participate in Georgia Virtual School courses in excess of any annual maximum number of courses at a tuition rate to be established by the state board. Requires local school systems to pay tuition, materials, and fees for student participation in Georgia Virtual School Beginning with the 2013-14 school year, requires each local school system to provide opportunities for all public school students in grades 3-12 to participate in part-time and full-time virtual instruction program options. Requires local school systems to notify parents of such opportunities, and identifies mechanisms by which local school systems may facilitate virtual instruction program participation. Requires a local school system's virtual instruction program to provide for at least two full-time options and one part-time option for students enrolled in dropout prevention and academic intervention programs or Department of Juvenile Justice education programs. Directs the department to annually provide local school systems with a list of providers approved to offer virtual instruction programs, and establishes quality and accountability indicators providers must meet to be approved by the department. Requires each contract with an approved provider to set forth a detailed curriculum plan that illustrates how students will be provided services for, and be measured for attainment of, proficiency in state curriculum requirements for each grade level and subject. Directs the department, by December 2012, to submit a report to the governor and legislative leadership that (1) includes a plan under which local boards may voluntarily pool their bids for acquiring digital learning, and (2) identifies criteria to enable local boards to differentiate between the level of service as well as pricing based on specified criteria. Also requires that the report examine ways to increase student access to digital learning. Pages 1-6 of 7: http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/127888.pdf Title: S.B. 289 - Online Learning Source: FL Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Provides Florida Virtual School (FVS) full-time students who meet specified academic and conduct requirements are eligible to participate in extracurricular activities at the public school to which the student would be assigned or could choose to attend, provided the student meets specified eligibility criteria. Clarifies eligibility criteria for students transfering into and out of FVS full-time program. Prohibits any person from taking an online course or examination on behalf of another person for compensation; provides a penalty. Clarifies definition of "blended learning." Requires students in a blended learning course offered by a district to be full-time students of the school and receive the online instruction in a classroom setting at the school. Provides the funding, performance, and accountability requirements for blended learning courses are the same as those for traditional courses. Authorizes the FVS to provide part-time instruction for students in grades K-3 (statute already permitted FVS to provide part-time instruction for grades 4-12). Provides student eligibility requirements for part-time instruction in grades K-5 for FVS. Removes requirement that each elementary school principal notify the parent of a student scoring at Level 4 or Level 5 on FCAT Reading or FCAT Mathematics of the option for the student to take accelerated courses through the FVS. Requires FVS students to take statewide assessments at the school to which the student would be assigned. Requires a district virtual instruction program to include part-time virtual instruction for K-12 students (previously part-time instruction requirement was only for students in grades 9-12). Requires a provider of virtual instruction programs to have an annual financial audit of its accounts. Revises provisions relating to eligibility requirements for virtual instruction and virtual instruction options. Requires full-time virtual instruction programs provided by FVS and under statute 1002.45 http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=1000-1099/1002/Sections/1002.45.html to fulfill district obligations for exceptional students enrolled in a full-time virtual instruction program. Bill text: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7063er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7063&Session=2012 Final bill analysis: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h7063z.KINS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=7063&Session=2012 Title: H.B. 7063 - Online and Blended Learning Source: myfloridahouse.gov FL Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Prohibits a school from requiring a student to complete the online course requirement for high school graduation outside the school day or in addition to a student's courses for a given semester. Specifies that this requirement does not apply to a student with an individual education plan that indicates that an online course would be inappropriate or a student who enrolls in a Florida high school and has less than 1 academic year remaining in high school. Bill text (page 11 of 21): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7063er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7063&Session=2012 Final bill analysis (page 5 of 11): http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h7063z.KINS.DOCX&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=7063&Session=2012 Title: H.B. 7063 - Online Course for High School Graduation Source: myfloridahouse.gov LA Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Requires the state board of education to create a process for authorizing course providers, including online or virtual providers, postsecondary education institutions, and corporations that offer vocational or technical courses. The process must include certain required information to be provided by proposed authorizers, including the administration of state assessments, the school systems where the provider will operate, the proposed courses offered, and the alignment of the courses with any approved Louisiana diploma. Provides for an initial authorization period of three years and provides for reauthorization for additional periods of three to five years. Provides for monitoring and evaluation of course providers by the board. Requires the board to create a common course numbering process and course catalogue for all courses and a reciprocal teacher certification process for certain teachers residing in other states who are employed by course providers. The bill also addresses state funding for the courses and providers. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=793655 For more details on process and other rulemakings by the state board per this legislation, see pages 74-78 of 276: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1212/1212.pdf Title: H.B. 976 Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us AR Adopted 02/2012 P-12 Creates the distance Learning Coordinating Council to evaluate programs and determine whether they are being utilized fully and efficiently. Outlines the members of the Council, term limits, meeting frequency, and other adminitrative rules. Requires the Council to make annual recommendations to the Department of Education and other entities. Sets minimum requirements for the administration of distance learning in elementary and secondary schools including: approved providers, courses and instructors; requirements for site facilitators, student achievement assessments, class sizes, student-instructor ratios, scheduling and availability. Establishes the Arkansas Distance Learning Development Program, conducted by the Department of Education. Oulines focus areas and funding rules. Requires the Commissioner to annually review the program and make recommendations to the State Board. Enables the Commissioner to enter into contracts and provide grants for implementation. Specifies that students participating in the Program are eligible for public education credit and grades. Requires that students participating in distance learning courses reside in the district offering the course and agree to attend the school to participate in the course. Requires that the course be offered for credit and approved by the Department of Education. Outlines exceptions to these rules, and rules for home-schooled students. Outlines grant standards and uses, protocols and distribution requirements. Requires districts to collaborate with one another to establish educational needs and maximize distance learning services. http://170.94.37.152/REGS/005.15.12-001F-12833.pdf Title: AR ADC 005.25.2-1.00 to AR ADC 005.25.2-13.00; AR ADC 005.25.4-1.00 to AR ADC 005.25.4-5.00; AR ADC 005.25.5-1.00 to AR ADC 005.25.5-9.00 Source: http://www.sos.arkansas.gov/rules_and_regs/ ME Issued 02/2012 P-12 As part of the Maine Department of Education's plan to implement a student centered, proficiency based model for education, the governor has instructed the DOE to develop a strategic plan to adopt and implement the policies defined by the 10 Elements of High Quality Digital Learning. http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/index.php?topic=Gov_Executive_Orders&id=348673&v=article2011 Title: 2012 ME EO 1 Source: http://www.maine.gov TX Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Permits a student to enroll in a course provided through the state virtual school network if the student is either under 21 or under 26 and entitled to the benefits of the Foundation School Program under Section 42.003. Directs each district or open-enrollment charter school to adopt a policy providing students with the opportunity to enroll in courses provided through the state virtual school network; requires such policy to be consistent with statutory requirements. Requires a determination of whether an electronic course will meet the needs of a student with a disability to be made by the student's admission, review, and dismissal committee in accordance with state and federal law. Requires the administering authority of the state virtual school network to provide students who have completed or withdrawn from a course (and students' parents) a mechanism to provide comments regarding the course. Requires the administering authority to provide public access to student and parent comments, and for comments to be able to be sorted by teacher, electronic course, and provider district or school. Provides that if the essential knowledge and skills with which a state virtual school network course is aligned are modified, the provider district or school must have the same time period to align the course as is provided for the modification of a course provided in a traditional classroom setting. Existing law requires the administering authority to establish a schedule for an annual submission and approval process for electronic courses, and evaluate electronic courses to be offered through the state virtual school network. New provision (1) requires the administering authority to publish such schedule, including any deadlines, and any guidelines applicable to the submission and approval process, and (2) requires the evaluation to include review of each electronic course component, including off-line material proposed to be used in the course. Directs the state education agency to establish and publish a fee schedule for the cost of evaluating and approving electronic courses submitted by a district, open-enrollment charter school, or public or private institution of higher education, if the agency determines a shortage of funds for that purpose. Provides a district or open-enrollment charter school is entitled to funding for a student's enrollment in a course offered through the state virtual school network in the same manner the district or charter school is entitled to funding for the student's enrollment in courses provided in a traditional classroom setting, provided the student successfully completes the electronic course. Directs the commissioner to adopt a standard agreement to govern payments relating to a student's enrollment in an electronic course offered through the state virtual school network. Provides exceptions to when a district or open-enrollment charter school must use the standard agreement. Repeals Section 42.159, Education Code. Pages 178-184 of 263: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/821/billtext/pdf/SB00001F.pdf#navpanes=0 Title: S.B. 1 Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us OH Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Removes provision that the state board adopt state standards every five years after June 30, 2010; replaces with provision that state board adopt standards periodically. Repeals requirements that the standards specify "the development of skill sets as they relate to creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem solving, and communication and collaboration" and "the development of skill sets that promote personal management, productivity and accountability, and leadership and responsibility". Replaces requirement for development of standards and model curricula in "computer literacy" with "technology". Page 3 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf Title: H.B. 153 - State Standards Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us FL Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Creates Digital Learning Now Act. Requires school districts to establish virtual instruction options. Authorizes establishment of virtual charter schools. Authorizes blended learning courses. Authorizes Florida Virtual School (FLVS) to provide full-time instruction to students in kindergarten through grade 12 and provides additional requirements for FLVS. Provides funding and accountability requirements. Requires high school students entering grade 9 in the 2011-12 school year to complete at least one online course within the 24 credit requirement for high school graduation. Redefines FTE student for purposes of virtual instruction. Requires the Department of Education (DOE) to issue a report identifying and explaining the best methods and strategies for increasing student access to digital learning. Requires the DOE to develop an evaluation method for providers of part-time virtual programs. Provides that all statewide end-of-course assessments be administered online by the 2014-15 school year. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7197er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7197&Session=2011 Title: H.B. 7197 Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov FL Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Authorizes school districts to provide a digital curriculum for students in grades 6 through 12 (Sec. 17). Requires a district's strategic plan to include plans to implement a middle school career and professional academy (Sec. 20). Eliminates the requirement that a student choose the 18 credit accelerated graduation option no later than ninth grade (Sec. 19). Authorizes school districts to select premethods and postmethods for determining student learning gains for supplemental educational service providers (Sec. 28). http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1255er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1255&Session=2011 Title: H.B. 1255 - Sec. 17, 19, 20, 28 Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov VT Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 This section requires the Department to report to the legislature on current and planned use of technology and Internet services in public schools, including 1) each school's type of Internet service (speed of connection, service provider, projected upgrades); 2) efforts to increase the availability of individual learning opportunities, dual enrollment, online and other alternative learning programs; 3) expansion of flexible learning environments, including efforts to develop and increase opportunities with out-of-state providers; 4) results of the department's research concerned the possible developoment of a statewide open document format that could be standadized across the K-12 structure, including consideration of tools available, security risk inherent in each, and the viability of state agencies to join efforts to help standardize systems and reduce costs on proprietary software and solutions; 5) implementation of the department's communication and collaboration tool during the summer of 2011; 6) review by the department and the state board of the school quality standards and consideration of amendments focusing on the continued evolution of teaching and learning supported by technology. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2012/Acts/ACT058.pdf Title: S.B. 100 - Technology Provisions Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us OK Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Instructs the state board to adopt rules to provide for implementation of supplemental online courses and makes the measure apply only to students taking supplemental courses rather than full-time online courses. Removes the need for an Individualized Learning Plan for each student taking online courses and instructs the state board to develop rules for student participation in extracurricular activities in accordance with school district eligibility rules and polices and any rules of a private organization or association that provides coordination, supervision and regulation of interscholastic activities and contests of schools. Removes the need for the rules to address student participation in assessments administered pursuant to state law and the need for ongoing weekly telephonic communication between teacher and student and monthly communication between teacher and parents. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf/2011-12%20ENR/SB/SB280%20ENR.DOC Title: S.B. 280 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us WA Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Requires school districts to provide students with the opportunity to integrate technology literacy and fluency in core courses. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2011-12/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202011/5392-S.SL.pdf Title: S.B. 5392 Source: apps.leg.wa.gov OK Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 The measure requires that state aid to districts for students in online courses be based upon the average daily membership of those students in the first nine weeks of the current school year. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf/2011-12%20ENR/SB/SB141%20ENR.DOC Title: S.B. 141 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us UT Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Identifies allowable expenditures of K-3 Reading Improvement Program funds, including, among other uses, focused reading remediations through before- and after-school programs and summer programs, or reading software. Directs the state board to annually report to the education interim committee a summary of reading improvement program expenditures by districts and charter schools. http://le.utah.gov/~2011/bills/sbillenr/sb0063.pdf Title: S.B. 63 Source: le.utah.gov PA Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 11/2010 P-12 This section requires the Secretary of Education to establish state standards for business, computer and information technology courses within 18 months. http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=PDF&sessYr=2009&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=0101&pn=4389 Title: H.B. 101- Section 1552 Source: http://www.legis.state.pa.us MI Signed into law 09/2010 P-12 Requires the state department of education to work with districts that operate as a school of excellence cyber school and districts that operate an alternative education program with a seat-time waiver to provide a report to the legislature and the state budget director on all of the following: (1) Each district operating a program and the districts that enroll students in their program; (2) The total number of students and membership pupils enrolled in each program; (3) The district in which each pupil is enrolled if other than the district with the seat-time wavier or the cyber school; (4) The district in which the pupil was enrolled prior to enrolling in the cyber school or the district with a seat-time waiver program; (5) The number of participating students who had previously dropped out of school; (6) The number of participating students who had previously been expelled from school; (7) The cost per pupil paid to each online education provider; (8) The cost per pupil charged to school districts that enroll their students in the program; and (9) The name of each online education provider contracted by a district with a seat-time waiver or a cyber school and the state in which the online education provider is located. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2009-2010/publicact/htm/2010-PA-0164.htm Title: S.B. 1154 - Sec. 903 Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov CA Signed into law 08/2010 P-12 Adds that a nonpublic, nonsectarian school that provides K-12 special education services must, in providing state-adopted, standards-based, core curriculum and instructional materials, also provide technology-based materials as defined in statute. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1701-1750/ab_1742_bill_20100804_enrolled.pdf Title: A.B. 1742 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CT Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Increases the minimum credits required for high school graduation from 20 to 25 and gives greater emphasis to math, science and world languages, beginning with the class of 2018. Students in the Class of 2018 will also be expected to complete "end of the school year examinations" (end-of-course exams) in Algebra I, Geometry, Biology, American History and Grade 10 English. Also requires every student to complete a "capstone project" (independent demonstration project). Beginning with classes graduating in 2018, requires local/regional boards of education to provide adequate student support and remedial services for students beginning in grade 7. Such services must provide an alternate means for a student to complete any high school graduation requirements or end of the year exams. Requires the local/regional board of education to adopt a policy for the granting of credit for on-line coursework. Further requires each local/regional board, beginning with the school year commencing July 1, 2012, to collect information for each student enrolled in public school, beginning in grade 6, that records students' career and academic choices in grades 6 to 12. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2010/ACT/PA/2010PA-00111-R00SB-00438-PA.htm Title: S.B. 438 - Sec. 16 Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov CT Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Requires schools with a dropout rate of 8% or higher to establish an on-line credit recovery program to help students earn needed credits. Such program must allow those students who are identified by certified personnel as in danger of failing to graduate to complete on-line coursework approved by the local/regional board of education for credit toward meeting the high school graduation requirement. Each school in the school district must designate, from among existing staff, an online learning coordinator to administer and coordinate the program. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2010/ACT/PA/2010PA-00111-R00SB-00438-PA.htm Title: S.B. 438 - Sec. 28 Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov MD Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Authorizes a local board of education to establish a virtual school, subject to the approval of the Maryland State Department of Education. A student who is eligible for enrollment in a public school in the state may enroll in a virtual school. Enrolled students must be provided with a sequential curriculum approved by the state board of education and regular assessments. A virtual school must provide the parents or guardians of enrolled students with instructional materials, including software, and information on the closest public facility that offers access to a computer, printer, and Internet connection. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb1362e.pdf Title: H.B. 1362 Source: http://mlis.state.md.us WV Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Updates process for adopting textbooks and other instructional material; replaces the terms "textbooks", "instructional materials", and "learning technologies" with "instructional resources"; modifies the limit on adoption cycles; provides for a listing of instructional resources on the state multiple list; requires a method of review and adds new and substantially revised resources to the multiple list; provides county waivers; provides the multiple list to be in an electronic format; revising the bidding, selection and approval process; requiring contracts to be filed pursuant to the state board process; providing for review of electronic instructional resources; providing for regional education service agency level selection teams; and ensuring equity of access to electronic instructional resources for all students. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB631%20SUB1%20enr.htm&yr=2010&sesstype=RS&i=631 Title: S.B. 631 Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us ME Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Provides for access to instructional materials and online learning for students with disabilities; requires access to Braille for instruction. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_124th/chapters/PUBLIC508.asp Title: S.B. 588 - Sec. 5 Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org CA Signed into law 10/2009 P-12 Relates to instructional materials. Revises the definition of technology-based materials to specify that they may include the electronic equipment required in order to use them if that equipment is to be used by pupils and teachers as a learning resource. Prohibits a school district from procuring electrical equipment if a county office of education determines that the district is out of compliance with the obligation to provide pupils with suffcient textbooks or instructional materials. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1351-1400/ab_1398_bill_20091011_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 1398 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Vetoed 10/2009 P-12 Adds Article 15.1., "Education Technology Task Force" to the education code. Defines "technology literacy". Establishes a task force for education technology to make preliminary recommendations on technology literacy model standards for grades 7-12. Specifies role groups that must be represented on the task force. Directs the task force to make preliminary recommendations to the superintendent of public instruction within a year of the task force's convening. Requires the superintendent to recommend technology literacy model standards to the state board within two months after receiving the task force's recommendations, and for the state board to adopt technology literacy model content standards pursuant to the superintendent's recommendations, within two months of receiving the superintendent's recommendations. Identifies specific areas on which the task force must make recommendations to the legislature and the state board within 18 months after the task force is convened, namely (1) Professional development, (2) Electronic learning resources and instructional materials, (3) Hardware, (4) Telecommunications infrastructure, and (5) Funding, based on an assessment of various funding models. Bill: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0801-0850/ab_836_bill_20090916_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0801-0850/ab_836_vt_20091012.html Title: A.B. 836 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Partially from the DOE summary of H.B. 1:Modifies the current requirement for the state board to develop a standard for reporting financial information to the public. Requires districts and educational service center boards to report revenues and expenditures by school building, including expenditures for salaries, and with expenditures for classroom teachers, other certified staff, and all other employees reported separately, as well as per-pupil expenditures per building. Provides that the state board's existing minimum standards for all public schools must require instructional materials and equipment, including library materials, to be aligned with the academic content standards. Directs the state board to adopt minimum operating standards for school districts, which districts must comply with unless they receive a waiver from the state superintendent. According to DOE summary, the operating standards override any conflicting provisions of a collective bargaining agreement. Provides the operating standards must include: (1) Standards for the effective and efficient organization, administration and supervision of districts (full text of this provision in "full text" field below) (2) Standards for the establishment of business advisory councils and family and civic engagement teams by school districts (3) Standards incorporating the classifications for the components of the adequacy amount under Chapter 3306 of the Revised Code into core academic strategy components and academic improvement components, as specified in rules adopted under section 3306.25 of the Revised Code (4) Standards for school district organizational units, as defined in sections 3306.02 and 3306.04 of the Revised Code, that require: (i) The effective and efficient organization, administration and supervision of each school district organizational unit so that it becomes a thinking and learning organization according to principles of systems design and collaborative professional learning communities research as defined by the state superintendent, including a focus on the personalized and individualized needs of each student; a shared responsibility among organizational unit administrators, faculty and staff to develop a common vision, mission and set of guiding principles; a shared responsibility among organizational unit administrators, faculty and staff to engage in a process of collective inquiry, action orientation and experimentation to ensure the academic success of all students; commitment to job-embedded professional development and professional mentoring and coaching; established periods of time for teachers to pursue planning time for the development of lesson plans, professional development, and shared learning; commitment to effective management strategies that allow administrators reasonable access to classrooms for observation and professional development experiences; commitment to teaching and learning strategies that utilize technological tools and emphasize inter-disciplinary, real-world, project-based, and technology-oriented learning experiences to meet the individual needs of every student; commitment to high expectations for every student and commitment to closing the achievement gap so that all students achieve core knowledge and skills in accordance with the statewide academic standards adopted under section 3301.079 of the Revised Code; commitment to the use of assessments to diagnose the needs of each student; effective connections and relationships with families and others that support student success; commitment to the use of positive behavior intervention supports throughout the organizational unit to ensure a safe and secure learning environment for all students (ii) A school organizational unit leadership team to coordinate positive behavior intervention supports, family and civic engagement services, learning environments, thinking and learning systems, collaborative planning, planning time, student academic interventions, student extended learning opportunities, and other activities identified by the team and approved by the district board of education. Provides that the team must include the building principal, representatives from each collective bargaining unit, the building lead teacher, parents, business representatives and others that support student success. Eliminates requirement that state board develop a state plan for technology to encourage the use of technology in educational settings. DOE summary document: http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635 Bill text (pages 979-984 of 3120): http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.07 Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Changes the "Technology Immersion Pilot Project" to the "Technology Demonstration Sites Project." Changes the purposes of the project to: (1) Demonstrating the use of technology for improving teaching and learning (2) Using digital tools and resources to extend learning opportunities from school to home (3) Exemplifying instructional practices and lessons that support academic learning in the classroom and at home. Specifies that the project may use existing home electronic devices or provide electronic device checkout options to allow students, at school and at home, to use software, online courses and other appropriate technologies. Requires the agency to review the progress made through each demonstration site. Includes hiring of pedagogical support staff as an allowable expenditure for participating districts and schools. Eliminates some criteria the agency must use in selecting project participants. Requires agency to select at least five districts (instead of five schools) to participate in the project, although not every school in every district must necessarily participate. Adds new subchapter, "Computer Lending Pilot Program" (identical to that created by enacted 2009 H.B. 4294 http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB04294F.pdf and enacted 2009 S.B. 2178 http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/SB02178F.pdf) to make computers available to students and parents. Specifies that a school is eligible to participate if at least 50% of students are educationally disadvantaged, and the school agrees to operate a lending program with certain components, including that students/parents may work toward owning a computer borrowed through the program, and the program provide computer training for students and parents. Requires the commissioner of education to annually report to the legislature on the computer lending pilot program. Adds provision to government code that under specified circumstances, a state agency or charitable institution or institution of higher education must make surplus or salvage data processing equipment available for the computer lending pilot program, for the commissioner of education to accept or decline. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB02893F.pdf Title: H.B. 2893 Source: www.legis.state.tx.us FL Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Postsec. Creates the Florida Qualified School Construction Bond Allocation Act; requires the Office of Technology and Information Services (under supervision of the state board) to develop a systemwide technology plan, making budget recommendations to the commissioner, providing data collection and management for the system, assisting school districts in securing Internet access and telecommunications services, including those eligible for funding under the Schools and Libraries Program of the federal Universal Service Fund, and coordinating services with other state, local, and private agencies; requires the Office of Technology and Information Services to develop a method to address the need for a statewide approach to planning and operations of library and information services to achieve a single K-20 education system library information portal and a unified higher education library management system. Provides for the Virtual instruction program - a program of instruction provided in an interactive learning environment created through technology in which students are separated from their teachers by time or space, or both, and in which a Florida-certified teacher is responsible for at least: (a) 50% of the direct instruction to students in kindergarten through grade 5; or (b) 80% of the direct instruction to students in grades 6 through 12. Amends the school food service programs statute to require each district school board to implement school breakfast programs that make breakfast meals available to all students in each elementary school; by the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year, universal school breakfast programs shall be offered in schools in which 80 % or more of the students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Authorizes, for the 2009-2010 fiscal year, the Department of Education to conduct a pilot program to determine the feasibility of managing the Florida Teachers Lead Program through a centralized electronic system. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2009-059.pdf Title: S.B. 1676 Source: http://laws.flrules.org OK Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Creates the Task Force on Internet-Based Instruction to conduct a comprehensive review of Internet-based instruction in this state and make recommendations regarding necessary changes to ensure accountability for such programs in public schools. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10bills/SB/SB604_ENR.RTF Title: S.B. 604 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us UT Adopted 02/2009 P-12 Directs all districts and charter schools, by April 2009, to adopt policies governing the possession and use of electronic devices while on public school premises. Sets forth multiple components that must be addressed in local policies, inlcuding prohibitions on the use of electronic devices in a way that threatens, humiliates, harasses, or intimidates school-related individuals, including students, employees and invitees, or violates local, state or federal laws. Policies may also include strategies for use of technology that enhance instruction. Provides the state office of education must: --Provide resources, upon request, for school districts and schools as they develop electronic device policies, including sources for successful policies, assistance with reviewing draft policies, and information about bullying, harassing, and discrimination via electronic devices. --Develop a model policy or a policy framework to assist school districts and individual schools in developing and implementing their policies --Promote the use of effective strategies to enhance instruction and professional development through technology --Ensure that parents and school employees are involved in the development and implementation of policies --Work and cooperate with other education entities, such as the PTA, the Utah School Boards Association, the Utah Education Association, the State Charter School Board and the Utah High School Activities Association to provide consistent information to parents and community members about electronic device policies and to provide for appropriate and consistent penalties for violation of policies, including violations that take place at public school extracurricular and athletic events. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/bulletin/2008/20081201/32141.htm Title: R277-495 Source: www.rules.utah.gov CA Vetoed 09/2008 P-12 Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish the Statewide Education Technology Policy Task Force for the purpose of developing recommendations for a comprehensive statewide plan to increase and enhance the level of technology used to deliver instruction in public schools, including professional development and the funding thereof. http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm Title: S.B. 1330 Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Relates to Internet safety education curriculum. Beginning with the 2009-2010 school year, requires districts to incorporate an age-appropriate component on Internet safety into the school curriculum, to be taught at least once each school year to students in grades 3 or above. Requires the local school board to determine the scope and duration of such instruction. Allows the age-appropriate unit of instruction to be incorporated into the current courses of study regularly taught in the district's schools, as determined by the school board. Requires the state board of education to make available on its Web site resource materials for teaching children about online safety. Provides that such materials may include information on safe online communications, privacy protection, cyber-bullying, viewing inappropriate material, file sharing, and the importance of open communication with responsible adults. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB2512lv.pdf Title: S.B. 2512 Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation TN Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Requires the development of acceptable Internet use policies for public and private schools to protect children from certain online material. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB3702.pdf Title: S.B. 3702 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us IL Signed into law 08/2007 P-12 Creates the Internet Safety Education Act. Provides that each school may adopt an age-appropriate curriculum for Internet safety instruction of students in grades K-12. Recommends a minimum of two hours of instruction each school year on: (1) Safe and responsible use of social networking Web sites, chat rooms, e-mail, bulletin boards, instant messaging, and other means of communication on the Internet. (2) Recognizing, avoiding, and reporting online solicitations of students and their peers by sexual predators. (3) Risks of transmitting personal information on the Internet. (4) Recognizing and avoiding unsolicited or deceptive communications received online. (5) Recognizing and reporting online harassment and cyber-bullying. (6) Reporting illegal activities and communications on the Internet. (7) Copyright laws on written materials, photographs, music and video. Provides that a school may submit the curriculum for review to the office of the attorney general. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB1472lv.pdf Title: S.B. 1472 Source: www.ilga.gov TX Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Directs the Commissioner of Education to establish a pilot program providing grants to school districts with enrollment of fewer than 5,000 students that are not located in a standard metropolitan statistical area for the purpose of providing technology-based supplemental instruction. Grant award amounts equate to $200 per student served per year, not to exceed $4 million in total expenditures annually, and require that participating school districts contribute an additional $100 per student served per year. Requires the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to conduct a performance evaluation of the pilot program, providing an interim report to the legislature by December 1, 2008 and a final evaluation by December 1, 2010. Evaluation costs cannot exceed $150,000 per fiscal year. Pilot program concludes at the end of fiscal year 2011. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/HB02864F.pdf Title: H.B. 2864 Source: http://www.legis.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Requires the commissioner to award grants to organizations that provide volunteers for programs to enhance college readiness, workforce readiness, dropout prevention, and personal financial literacy. Also requires the commissioner of education to review and approve dropout prevention strategies in districts meeting certain criteria. New Section 29.919 requires the commissioner of education to establish a pilot program to provide grants to rural campuses for technology-based supplemental instruction. State funds for the program are limited to $4 million a year, or greater amount as provided by appropriations. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/HB02237F.pdf Title: H.B. 2237 (Supplemental Help Provisions) Source: http://www.legis.state.tx.us TN Signed into law 04/2007 Postsec. Authorizes state colleges and universities to provide free Internet access campus wide. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/SB1064.pdf Title: H.B. 2066 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us NM Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Postsec. Community College Creates the regional educational technology assistance center as a professional development center at New Mexico state university's college of extended learning. The center will provide: (1) technology integration training into teaching and learning; (2) professional development dossier creation; (3) use of data to drive instruction to improve student learning outcomes; (4) internet safety, online teaching and learning and technical assistance; (5) faculty development in integrating technology and distance learning tools; (6) and implementing the New Mexico learning network. http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/SB0425.pdf Title: S.B. 425 Source: http://legis.state.nm.us WV Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Establishes the 21st Century Tools for 21st Century Schools Technology Initiative to replace, enhance and fund current technology programs in schools; requires the development of a 21st Century Strategic Technology Learning Plan under the initiative and sets forth specific areas it should address; requires that the provision of technologies and services to students and teachers by schools be based on the goals of the 21st Century Strategic Technology Learning Plan; requires funds for the initiative/plan to be allocated equitably to county school systems following peer review of their technology plans that includes providing necessary technical assistance prior to submission and allowing for timely review and approval by the West Virginia Department of Education; outlines the use of technology and technology infrastructure under the initiative/plan. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2007_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/SB603%20SUB1%20enr.htm Title: S.B. 603 Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/ AZ Issued 01/2007 P-12 Relates to the building of 21st century schools to serve Arizona's students. Includes technology, personal learning enivronments, productive relationships, safety and energy efficient environments. http://azgovernor.gov/dms/upload/EO_2007_06_SDOC4876.pdf Title: Executive Order 6 Source: Arizona Governor's Office OH Signed into law 12/2006 P-12 Directs public, charter and chartered nonpublic schools to integrate technology whereever practicable across the curriculum. Provides that districts and schools may use distance and web-based course delivery as a method of providing or augmenting all instruction required in the Ohio core curriculum (high school graduation requirements for Class of 2014), including lab experience in science. Directs districts and schools, whenever practicable, to utilize technology access and electronic learning opportunities provided by the eTech Ohio commission, the Ohio learning network, education technology centers, public television stations, and other public and private providers. See Sec. 3313.603(C)(7) final paragraph: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_SB_0311 Title: S.B. 311--Sec. 3313.603(C)(7) Part 4 Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us CA Vetoed 09/2006 P-12 Establishes the Digital Arts Studio Partnership Program to train youth in digital technology arts. Requires the program to be administered by the Lieutenant Governor's Office. Requires the office to contract with a nonprofit corporation to implement the program in partnership with other participating regional organizations, to convene a advisory panel, and to report annually on the progress of the program. Title: A.B. 252 Source: California Legislature CA Signed into law 09/2006 P-12 Authorizes 12 schools to request a publisher that makes instructional materials available to a school district in a hard copy format to make instructional materials available in an electronic multimedia format upon adoption of instructional materials. Grants authority to the State Board of Education to authorize a participating school to use alternate instructional materials in an electronic multimedia format if a publisher is unable to provide adopted instructional materials in such format. Title: A.B. 1548 Source: California Legislature CA Vetoed 08/2006 P-12 Requires the State Department of Education to develop and maintain Internet safety curriculum for use by local educational agencies. Requires the guidelines to include, but not be limited to, specified subjects. Requires the department to distribute the guidelines to local educational agencies. Authorizes a local educational agency to incorporate the guidelines into the agency's existing curriculum. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1701-1750/sb_1740_bill_20060829_enrolled.pdf Title: S.B. 1740 Source: California Legislature CA Signed into law 08/2006 P-12 Requires a school district's education technology plan to include a component to educate pupils and teachers on the appropriate and ethical use of information technology, in the classroom, Internet security, avoiding plagiarism, the concept, purpose, and significance of a copyright for pupils, and implications of illegal peer-to-peer network file sharing. Exempts a district that has a certain plan from compliance with this requirement until the plan expires or is replaced, then the district is subject. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0301-0350/ab_307_bill_20060823_enrolled.pdf Title: A.B. 307 Source: California Legislature NY Signed into law 08/2006 P-12 Provides that any school district may provide instruction designed to promote the proper and safe use of the internet to K-12th grade students. Directs the commissioner to provide technical assistance in the development of curricula for such courses of study which will be age appropriate and developed according to the needs and abilities of pupils at successive grade levels in order to provide awareness, skills, information and support to aid in the safe usage of the internet. Title: S.B. 7818 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MD Vetoed 04/2006 P-12 Establishes the Educational Technology Pilot Program in Baltimore City and Dorchester, Prince George's, Somerset, and St. Mary's counties; requires the State Superintendent of Schools and specified organizations to develop a plan to implement the program in elementary schools; requires the plan to meet specified requirements; provides for the funding of the program. http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb1439t.pdf Title: H.B. 1439; S.B. 848 Source: Maryland Legislature VA Signed into law 02/2006 P-12 Requires that Internet safety instruction emphasizing ways of avoiding dangerous, inappropriate, and unlawful Internet use to students in school divisions in which the resource officers are employed. Requries the state superintendent to issue guidelines. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0052 Title: H.B. 58 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Requires the Arkansas Science and Technology Authority to develop a knowledge-based technology curriculum for use in grades 7-12 beginning in the 2007-2008 school year. Requires the curriculum to include a collection of the substantive material used to teach a particular subject matter, lesson plans and recommendations for activities and other learning processes. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2964.pdf Title: H.B. 2964 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us CO To governor 04/2005 P-12 Encourages districts to provide age-appropriate curriculum that covers safe use of the Internet. Concerns inclusion of an internet safety plan in each school district's safe school plan. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont2/ Title: H.B. 1036 Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us AR Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Expands list of "instructional materials" that may be exempt from sales tax when purchased by schools, to include sheet music, electronic software, maps, globes, art supplies, workbooks, flash cards, educational blocks, educational models, manipulatives, charts, video tapes, DVDs, films, or cassettes containing instructional information designed to be presented to students as part of a course of study. Specifies that "instructional materials" does not include items purchased for use in interscholastic extracurricular activities, administration or maintenance of the school, or construction materials or supplies. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/HB2099.pdf Title: H.B. 2099 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us PA Signed into law 11/2004 P-12 Provides for protection of children from obscene material, child pornography and other material that is harmful to children on the Internet in public schools and public libraries. Provides for the duties of the Secretary of Education. Relates to the Internet as the international network of computer systems. Provides immunity to public libraries for damages caused by online servers. Title: H.B. 2262 Source: StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Makes certain findings and declarations relating to the California Technology Assistance Project. Adds certain educational needs that can be addressed with the use of technology. Requires a school district or county office of education to provide a plan containing certain criteria to be considered as a lead agency. Provides specific educational technology services to be supported by the California Technology Assistance Project. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1251-1300/sb_1254_bill_20040910_chaptered.html Title: S.B. 1254 Source: California Legislative Web site IL Signed into law 08/2004 P-12 Amends the School Code and the State Finance Act. Requires the State Board of Education to establish a 3-year technology immersion pilot project to provide a wireless laptop computer to each student, teacher, and relevant administrator in a participating school and implement the use of software, on- line courses, and other appropriate learning technologies that have been shown to improve academic achievement and specified progress measures. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0901 http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0904 Title: H.B. 4944; S.B.2732 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site LA Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Postsec. Provides relative to student eligibility for Louisiana Tuition Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) scholarship program. Eliminates provision that completion of one-half unit of computer science, computer literacy and computer business applications is requirement only through the 2006-2007 school year. (Continues one-half unit requirement through 2007-08 school year and beyond). Deletes language that students graduating during the 2007-08 school year and thereafter must complete one and one-half units of computer science, computer literacy or business computer applications; replaces with requirement that students graduating during the 2007-08 school year and thereafter complete at least one unit as an elective from among other math or science subjects listed in core curriculum. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT7/OUT/0000LUSP.PDF Title: H.B. 32 Source: www.legis.state.la.us CT Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Concerning education technology programs; requires schools to consider wireless technology in planning school construction projects and to transfer curriculum-related programs concerning technology for instructional purposes to the Department of Education. http://www.cga.state.ct.us/2004/act/Pa/2004PA-00057-R00SB-00531-PA.htm Title: S.B. 531 Source: Connecticut Legislative Web site VA Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Amends section 22.1-253.13:1 and 22.1-253.13:2 . Specifies that the Standards of Learning form the core of Virginia's educational program and other educational objectives. Specifies that the state board must, at a minimum, define Standards of Learning for English, mathematics, science, history and social science. Specifies that "communication" as included in the Standards of Learning comprises listening, speaking, reading and writing. To passage on public input on proposed revisions to the Standards of Learning, adds that the department must provide and maintain Web capacity to allowing K-12 educators to submit recommendations for improvements to the Standards of Learning, when under review by the state board, as well as to the related assessments. Deletes "career education schools" from language requiring local boards to implement career and technical education programs. Provisions (i) increase from one half-time to one full-time principal in elementary schools with fewer than 300 students; (ii) provide one full-time assistant principal for each 400 students in each school, regardless of grade level; (iv) lower the pupil-teacher ratio from 25:1 to 21:1 in middle and high schools, to ensure the provision of scheduled teacher planning time; (v) reduce the required speech pathologist caseload from 68 to 60 students; (vi) require two technology support positions per 1,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12 divisionwide; and (viii) modify the current funding mechanism for remediation. Requires the state board to submit to the governor and the general assembly a report on the condition and needs of public education in the commonwealth and shall identify any school divisions and the specific schools therein that have failed to establish and maintain schools meeting the existing prescribed standards of quality. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?041+ful+CHAP0955 Title: H.B. 1014 Source: leg1.state.va.us AZ Vetoed 04/2004 P-12 Concerns school attendance and enrollment in technology assisted project-based instruction programs; clarifies that certain grades may enroll in approved program regardless of previous school attendance; concerns average daily membership of program and student count; requires Board of Education and Board for Charter Schools to select random sample of parents of pupils for feedback focus group. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/bills/hb2618h%2Ehtm&DocType=B Title: H.B. 2618 Source: Arizona Legislative Web site DE Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Appropriates $9,000,000 from the Federal Fiscal Relief Fund to the State's school districts and charter schools for the purchase of instructional technology, textbooks, and library books and materials. http://www.legis.state.de.us/Legislature.nsf/fsLIS?openframeset&Frame=Main&Src=/LIS/LIS142.NSF/Home?Openform Title: S.B. 231 Source: Delaware Legislative Web site ME Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 In 1993, the United States Congress authorized the "Department of Defense STARBASE Program" and authorized the Department of Defense to enter into agreements with the states for the purpose of conducting programs designed to improve the knowledge and skills of students in mathematics, science and technology. This bill authorizes the establishment of a STARBASE program to provide science, mathematics and technology education improvement program for school children; removes the provisions of the bill that authorize the Adjutant General to contract with public and private entities to operate the program; retains and clarifies the provisions of the bill that authorizes the Adjutant General to hire a Director and other employees to operate the program. http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/externalsiteframe.asp?ID=280011947&LD=1690&Type=1 Title: http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/externalsiteframe.asp?ID=280011947&LD=1690&Type=1 Source: StateNet TX Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 The agency may by rule establish the technology immersion pilot project to provide a wireless mobile computing device to each student in a participating school and implement the use of software, on-line courses, and other appropriate learning technologies that have been shown to improve academic achievement and the progress measures listed in Section 32.155(e). Authorizes the agency to solicit and accept a gift, grant, or donation from any source for the implementation of the pilot project. Sets requirements for the use of such funds including wireless mobile computing devices, software and other equipment. The bill stipulates that project funds may not be used for the construction of a building or facility. The bill prohibits the agency from allocating more than $1million for a school participating in the pilot project. The bill provides that a school district may apply to the agency for the establishment of a technology immersion pilot project for the entire district or for a particular school or group of schools in the district. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=78&SESS=R&CHAMBER=S&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=00396&VERSION=4&TYPE=A Title: S.B. 396 Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us AZ Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Requires pupils enrolled in the Technology Assisted Project Based Instruction Program (TAPBI) to be subject to testing requirements, and students who fail to meet testing requirements may not be able to participate in the Program the following year, unless more than 95% of the pupils have been tested. Ensures that pupils in the Program were previously enrolled in a public school in the state, and allows kindergartners who have a sibling already enrolled in the Program to be eligible to participate. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to evaluate all nationally standardized norm-reference achievement tests offered in kindergarten and grade one, and may make a recommendation for a K-1 test for the Program, which schools may choose to administer.  Creates the Joint Select Committee on Technology Assisted Learning, which is repealed December 31, 2003, and adds an Emergency Clause. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=HB2093 Title: H.B. 2093 Source: Arizona Legislative Web site AZ Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Establishes a joint legislative committee on vocational and technological education; establishes membership and purpose of committee. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/1r/bills/hb2001h%2Ehtm&DocType=B Title: H.B. 2001 Source: Arizona State Web site NM Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Broadening the definition of instructional material; includes on-line resources and distance learning materials in this definition. Title: H.B. 724 Source: StateNet UT Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 The Legislature of the state of Utah, the Governor concurring therein, recognizes audio enhancement technology as a research-proven method and an important tool that can increase student academic achievement and student test scores, as well as increasing the quality of education in the state of Utah. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2003/bills/hbillenr/hcr002.pdf Title: H.C.R. 2 Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us/ NJ Signed into law 02/2003 P-12 Requires the state board to adopt core curriculum content standards for technology. Title: A.B. 2169 Source: StateNet MO Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 Requires public elementary and secondary schools and libraries to use filtering software or other means to restrict access by minors to pornographic materials on the Internet. Employees, officers, trustees, or Internet service providers that comply are not liable if a minor gains access to pornographic materials. Violators are guilty of a misdemeanor. Title: H.B. 1402 Source: Summaries of Truly Agreed to and Finally Passed Bills -- 2002 MD Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Includes computer-based technology, CD-ROM discs and web-based resources and courses in the definition of "technology" under this section. Adds Web-based distance-learning resources to list of technology state support can help provide. Includes in purpose of subtitle the provision of equal opportunities and expanded educational choices for all Maryland public school students, as well as expanded professional development opportunities for educators. Permits state superintendent to develop standards for school staff for the offering of courses or services online or through other technologies; to review courses and courseware for quality and alignment with state content standards and other standards; and to track and issue reports on courses or services used by school staff. Adds web-based products, resources and courses for classroom use to list of products for which public and private consortia may receive grants to develop. In awarding grants, requires priority to be given programs developed for relevance to state content standards and other appropriate standards. Adds distance-learning activities to list of learning opportunities to be provided through Maryland Technology Academy. Requires department to provide virtual learning opportunities that meet specified standards. Requires department, with state board and superintendent approval; to develop and procure online courses; to develop standards for teachers and other school employees for the offering of courses or services online or through other technology; and to review courses and courseware for quality and alignment with state standards. Establishes Maryland virtual learning opportunities fund. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb1197t.rtf Title: H.B. 1197 Source: mlis.state.md.us TN Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Allows electronic textbooks to be recommended, adopted, and purchased in same manner as regular textbooks. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 22. Title: H.B. 604 Source: Tennessee Legislative Web Site OK Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Creates the Oklahoma Statewide Portal System; relates to Internet access. Title: H.B. 1662 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet KS Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Concerns the KAN-ED Act; provides for the establishment and maintenance of a broadband technology-based network for certain schools, libraries, and hospitals. Title: H.B. 2035 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet UT Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Modifies provisions related to the State Textbook Commission by changing its name to the State Instructional Materials Commission; Expands the scope of materials reviewed by the commission to include workbooks, computer software, laserdiscs or videodiscs and multiple forms of communications media; provides that instructional materials identified as inappropriate by the State Board of Education may not be used in public schools. Title: S.B. 7 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet VA Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Relates to internet access in public schools; directs every public school furnishing student access to the Internet to utilize the appropriate technology to ensure, to the extent technologically feasible, that students are not permitted access to child pornography, obscenity, and materials that are harmful to juveniles. Title: H.B. 1691 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet SD Signed into law 02/2001 P-12 Any teacher that teaches a course over the Digital Dakota Network shall receive additional compensation for each course and from each school for which the teaching services are provided. Title: H.B. 1291 Source: http://legis.state.sd.us/ VA Signed into law 02/2001 P-12 Relates to internet access in public schools; directs every public school furnishing student access to the Internet to utilize the appropriate technology to ensure, to the extent technologically feasible, that students are not permitted access to child pornography, obscenity, and materials that are harmful to juveniles. Title: H.B. 1691 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OH Signed into law 12/2000 P-12 Expands the use of computer hardware and instructional materials purchased by school districts for use by students enrolled in nonpublic schools within the districts; permits all nonpublic auxiliary services to be delivered through contracts with educational service centers; declares an emergency. Title: H.B. 768 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet RI Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000 P-12 Relates to curriculum; permits the display of televised commercial advertising necessarily incidental to Internet access. Title: H.B. 6893 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CT Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Provides that the Department of Education shall establish a competitive grant program for high school projects that involve one or more of the following topics: computers, engineering, physics, mathematics, science or technical construction; allows local and regional boards of education to apply on behalf of a high school under their jurisdiction. Title: H.B. 5231 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet ME Signed into law 04/2000 Postsec. (LD 2519) Increases access to the State's Technical College System; provides funding to add additional students systemwide; addresses the State Technical College System's need to provide students with the ability to take courses and do research over the internet. Title: S.B. 973 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CO Signed into law 03/2000 Postsec. Concerns the role of higher education in the development of technology; encourages higher education institutions and systems to participate in the development of information technology education, innovation, and commerce; intends that the educational program delivery include both traditional and distance learning based on the most modern technologies, including video, on-line, and cd-roms and using the internet, satellites, and other forms of communications systems. Title: S.B. 183 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Revises Standards of Quality to make educational technology squarely within the scope of the Standards of Quality; requires the Board of Education to include proficiency in the use of computers and related technology in the Standards of Learning. Title: H.B. 203 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Postsec. Addresses information technology literacy at baccalaureate institutions of higher learning. Title: H.B. 2375 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NJ Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Permits aid to nonpublic schools for electronic textbooks; defines electronic textbooks as including computer software, computer-assisted instruction, interactive videodisks, and other computer courseware and magnetic media. Title: A.B. 1762 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet