Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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Fiscal Summary NOT SIGNIFICANT Bill Summary Present law authorizes the commissioner of education to reinstitute an enrollment cap or order the closure of a public virtual school that is identified as a priority school or demonstrates student achievement growth at a level of "significantly below expectations" for any three consecutive years of the school's operation, as represented by the TVAAS. This bill makes the closure of a public virtual school mandatory under such circumstances and implements a process for such school's closure, which would take effect at the end of the school year in which the commissioner directs the LEA to close the virtual school and includes parental notification, a moratorium on new student enrollment, and a prohibition against withholding student records. If a virtual school is closed upon direction of the commissioner, or if the LEA elects to close the virtual school, then this bill requires that the TISA payments for the LEA that established the school exclude a student who was a member in the virtual school the prior year who did not remain a member in the LEA following the closure of the virtual school. Present law authorizes an LEA to contract for services with nonprofit and for-profit providers for the operation and management of a virtual school. This bill adds the following with regard to such contracts: (1) A provider that has contracted with an LEA to operate or manage a virtual school that is closed pursuant to this bill is prohibited from operating a new virtual school in this state for a period of five consecutive years immediately following the year of the school's closure; (2) The department shall maintain and publish on the department's website a list of providers that are currently ineligible to contract for the operation and management of a new virtual school and a lis
