Section 48.0071 - Off-Campus Courses or Programs Counted for Purposes of Average Daily Attendance(a) The commissioner shall adopt by rule verification and reporting procedures to report student participation in courses or programs provided under Subsection (b).(b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may provide one or more off-campus electronic courses, an off-campus electronic program, or an instructional program that combines in-person instruction and off-campus electronic instruction to students enrolled in the district or school who have reasonable access to in-person services at a district or school facility. Off-campus electronic instruction for a course or program provided under this subsection may be provided synchronously or asynchronously. A student enrolled in a course or program provided under this subsection shall be counted toward the district's or school's average daily attendance in the same manner as other district or school students. In adopting rules under Subsection (a), the commissioner shall provide for a method of taking attendance, once each school day, for students enrolled in a course or program provided under this subsection.(c) A school district or open-enrollment charter school that operated during the 2020-2021 school year a full-time virtual program outside the state virtual network under Chapter 30A with at least 10 percent of the enrollment for the program including students who resided outside the geographic area served by the district or school may: (1) continue to operate the virtual program on a full-time basis;(2) apply the same enrollment and transfer criteria used during the 2020-2021 school year; and(3) offer the program to students in any grade level or combination of grade levels from kindergarten through grade 12 as long as the program includes at least one grade level for which an assessment instrument is administered under Section 39.023.(d) This section expires September 1, 2023.Tex. Educ. Code § 48.0071
Added by Acts 2021SP2, Texas Acts of the 87th Legislature - Second Special Session, ch. TBD,Sec. 7, eff. 9/9/2021, op. beginning with the 2021-2022 school year.