The final chapter

 An improved WA model ◦ Incorporates key features of “White Paper”  Quality  Sending District Accountability  Choice  Accountability  Oversight ◦ Addresses courses as well as full-time schools ◦ Addresses the primary issues raised over the past 5 years of virtual charter school debate

 Washington’s governance structure  Colorado’s hierarchy of terminology  Kansas’ financial transparency

OREGON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

 Delineates between a…  Virtual instruction course  Virtual instruction program  Authorizer of a virtual instruction program  Multidistrict virtual instruction program

 Gives authority to the OR Department of Education, approved by the State Board of Education, to develop an approval process for multi-district virtual instruction programs and courses offered through the Office of Virtual Instruction  Incorporates all accountability, quality, and financial transparency criteria from SB767 and HB 3660  Establishes virtual instruction advisory committee

◦ Absorbs current Oregon Virtual School District ◦ Offer approved courses from providers ◦ Develops and maintains website that  Provides objective information for students, parents, and educators regarding virtual instruction  Information on approved multi-district virtual instruction programs and course providers  How to register for virtual instruction programs and courses  Teacher qualifications  Student-to-teacher ratios  Course completion rates  Other evaluative and comparative information

 Department of Education to develop model policies and procedures, in consultation with stakeholders, that may be used by school district boards to develop virtual instruction policies  Requires all school district boards to develop policies and procedures regarding student access to virtual instruction courses and programs

 District is “strongly encouraged to honor parent request” to enroll in a multidistrict virtual instruction program outside the resident district ◦ For financial, educational, safety, or health condition affecting the student would likely be reasonably improved as a result of the transfer ◦ There is a special hardship or detrimental condition  Due process framework for parent appeal

 Virtual instruction fund ◦ All school districts must establish a virtual instruction fund  Virtual instruction fund is for all moneys received for students enrolled in a virtual instruction program  Expenses of a district attributable to virtual instruction offered by a district shall be paid from the virtual instruction fund  Any balance remaining at the end of the budget year in the virtual instruction fund shall be carried over for succeeding budget years

 Sunset language to repeal virtual charter language from current law  Transition of the ORVSD to the Office of Virtual Instruction