Current through the 2024 Fourth Special Session
Section 53F-4-504 - Authorized online course providers - Certified online course providers(1) The following entities are known as an authorized online course provider and may offer online courses to eligible students through the Statewide Online Education Program: (a) a school within an LEA created exclusively for the purpose of serving students online;(b) an LEA program, approved by the LEA governing board, that is created exclusively for the purpose of serving students online;(c) a program of an institution of higher education listed in Section 53B-2-101 that: (i) offers secondary school level courses; and(ii) is created exclusively for the purpose of serving students online; and(d) a certified online course provider.(2) The state board shall approve an online course provider as a certified online course provider if the online course provider:(a) complies with the application procedures described in Section 53F-4-514;(b) meets the standards described in Section 53F-4-514; and(c) has prior experience offering online courses to secondary students.(3) The state board may revoke the approval described in Subsection (2) if the state board: (a) finds that a certified online course provider is not complying with the requirements described in Section 53F-4-514;(b) provides written notice describing the findings of non-compliance to the certified online course provider;(c) provides the certified online course provider with at least 60 days to remedy the findings of non-compliance;(d) reevaluates the findings of non-compliance at least 60 days after the certified online course provider's remedy period described in Subsection (3)(c); and(e) finds after reevaluation that the certified online course provider has failed to satisfactorily remedy the findings of non-compliance.Amended by Chapter 24, 2024 General Session ,§ 5, eff. 5/1/2024.Amended by Chapter 368, 2023 General Session ,§ 5, eff. 5/3/2023.Amended by Chapter 413, 2021 General Session ,§ 2, eff. 5/5/2021.Amended by Chapter 186, 2019 General Session ,§ 247, eff. 5/14/2019.Renumbered from § 53A-15-1205 and amended by Chapter 2, 2018 General Session ,§ 98, eff. 1/24/2018.Amended by Chapter 404, 2015 General Session ,§ 1, eff. 5/12/2015.Amended by Chapter 238, 2012 General Session ,§ 9, eff. 5/8/2012.Enacted by Chapter 419, 2011 General Session