This text of North Dakota § 15.1-07-25.4 (Virtual learning - School district policy - Report to legislative management and legislative assembly) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering North Dakota primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
management and legislative assembly.
1.The board of a school district or governing board of a nonpublic school that operates a
physical school plant may adopt a policy to allow students to engage in virtual
instruction and in the case of a school district, qualify for average daily membership in
the district.
2.A resident school district may not deny open enrollment to an approved virtual school.
3.A student or a student's family member may not receive any item, service, or thing of
value not given in exchange for fair market consideration from a vendor providing
instruction or support under this section.
4.The superintendent of public instruction shall adopt rules governing policies under this
section.
5.A policy adopted by a school district under this section:
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management and legislative assembly.
1. The board of a school district or governing board of a nonpublic school that operates a
physical school plant may adopt a policy to allow students to engage in virtual
instruction and in the case of a school district, qualify for average daily membership in
the district.
2. A resident school district may not deny open enrollment to an approved virtual school.
3. A student or a student's family member may not receive any item, service, or thing of
value not given in exchange for fair market consideration from a vendor providing
instruction or support under this section.
4. The superintendent of public instruction shall adopt rules governing policies under this
section.
5. A policy adopted by a school district under this section:
a. Must comply with the rules adopted by the superintendent of public instruction.
b. May require registration for virtual instruction to coincide with the school district
course registration schedule and deadlines.
c. May require that students meet prerequisites to ensure readiness for sequential
virtual courses.
d. Must require the school district to pay for a virtual instruction course if the school
district does not offer the course and obtaining the course credit would contribute
to the student meeting high school graduation requirements in time to graduate
within the usual time frame.
e. May establish the minimum number of courses a student is required to take
onsite, whether virtual or in person. The policy may not unreasonably restrict
student access to virtual school options and must comply with laws and
administrative rules applicable to onsite students, as distinguished from virtual
academy students.
f. May grant discretion to the school district to determine whether to pay for a virtual
instruction course retake.
6. The superintendent of public instruction shall provide an annual report to either the
legislative management or the legislative assembly. In odd-numbered years, the report
must be made to the legislative assembly. In even-numbered years, the report must be
made to the legislative management. The annual report must:
a. Contain a comparison of the academic performance of students participating in
virtual instruction against students not participating in virtual instruction under this
section; and
b. Use the statewide prekindergarten through grade twelve strategic vision
framework goals.
7. If the superintendent of public instruction does not have access to academic
performance reports of a school district's virtual instruction subgroup because of the
low group size, the district shall provide the annual report required under this section
for the district's comparison data.
8. Students enrolled in an approved virtual school do not generate school district sized
weighting factors pursuant to section 15.1-27-03.2.