2020 House Bill 5912 ↩

Senate Roll Call 265: Passed

To waive the requirement that schools provide 1,098 hours of instruction in the 2021-22 school year, and waive the requirement that at least 75% of the students enrolled must be present a on a school day for the district to get state aid for that day. Instead, it appears that with some exceptions and ambiguities, schools would get funding during the declared coronavirus epidemic emergency if they “ensure” that at least 75% of the students who are enrolled for non-classroom instruction get at least one “two-way interaction” per month with one of their teachers, which could be an email, phone call or text message, or an actual face-to-face conversation. For purposes of tracking and public reporting, the standard is two teacher contacts per week. <br>School districts that choose not to provide in-person instruction would only be required to “provide pupil instruction...online, digitally, by other remote means, in a synchronous or asynchronous format” that “deliver the educational or course content that would have been delivered in 180 days and 1,098 hours”.