
December 02, 2022
Center for Education Opportunity
Part-Time Enrollment Act
December 02, 2022
TOPLINE POINTS
- The Part-Time Enrollment Act increases new learning opportunities for students, establishes new flexibilities for families, and supports public schools to serve students in new and different ways.
Section 1. {Title}
- This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Part-Time Enrollment Act” (the “Act”).
Section 2. {Legislative Purpose}
- The purpose of this Act is to:
- Increase learning opportunities for students;
- Establish new flexibilities for families; and
- Support public schools to serve students in new and different ways.
Section 3. {Definitions}
- “Regular school attendance” means a student who is enrolled in one or more of the following:
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- A public school;
- A private school;
- A home education program; or
- A private tutoring program.
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- “Part-time” means not less than one (1) course and not more than three (3) courses per academic year, or not less than twenty-five (25) percent and not more than fifty (50) percent of the number of instructional hours required per academic year for full enrollment by state law.
- “Public funding amount” means the sum of per-pupil funding a public school would receive for serving a student.
Section 4. {Part-Time Enrollment Act}
- Public schools may enroll any student who meets the regular school attendance criteria as defined in this Act part-time.
- Part-time public-school students may participate in one or more courses that are either provided in public school facilities or elsewhere as the public school considers appropriate.
- Public schools that enroll part-time students may contract with public or private entities to provide educational services to part-time enrolled students.
- For the purposes of funding, students who are enrolled part-time in a public school shall be included in the number of students reported to the state education agency. Each student who is enrolled part-time in a public school shall be funded proportionally to their enrollment in the public school.
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