ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-fifth Legislature

Second Regular Session

 

HB 2039: live, remote instruction; dual enrollment

Sponsor: Representative Udall, LD 25

Committee on Education

Overview

Allows a school district or charter school (school) to offer courses for high school students that are provided remotely in a live and synchronous setting by another school. Establishes tuition caps for dual enrollment courses. Establishes the Arizona Dual Enrollment Fund (Fund) and appropriates monies to the Fund.

History

To offer a dual enrollment course, a community college district governing board and school must enter into an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) or contract. These IGAs must detail funding arrangements between the community college and school, student tuition and financial aid policies, accountability provisions, responsibilities and services required of each party and the type and quality of instruction that will be provided.

Students in dual enrollment courses must be in a high school grade and must also satisfy any course prerequisites. A school must ensure that the student is enrolled full-time and is attending a full-time instructional program before allowing the student to enroll in a dual enrollment course. Homeschooled students may also participate in dual enrollment.

Dual enrollment courses must be evaluated and approved through the community college district's curriculum approval process. Additionally, these courses are required to be at a higher level than taught by the high school and must be transferable to an in-state public university or community college. College-approved textbooks, syllabuses, course outlines and grading standards that are used at courses taught at the community college must also be used in dual enrollment courses. Dual enrollment instructors must meet all the requirements established by the community college district governing board (A.R.S. § 15-1821.01).

Provisions

Live, Remote Instruction

1.   Allows a school to offer courses for students in the 9th-12th grades in which instructional services are provided remotely in a live and synchronous setting by another Arizona school pursuant to a written agreement. (Sec. 2)

2.   Requires a school that offers live, remote instruction courses to:

a)   Provide an in-person teacher or instructional aide for each course; and

b)   Ensure that students enrolled in these courses satisfy instructional time and hours requirements. (Sec. 2)

3.   Mandates any written agreement to provide live, remote instruction courses require the school acting as the instructional services provider to pay the course instructor a stipend of at least 25% of the contractual amount of per-course, per student monies. (Sec. 2)

4.   Assigns the average daily membership (ADM) generated by students enrolled in live, remote instruction courses to the school providing the moderated classroom. (Sec. 2)

5.   Prohibits the school acting as the instructional services provider from generating ADM for students attending a live, remote instruction course. (Sec. 2)

6.   Directs the school providing the moderated classroom for live, remote instruction courses and generating ADM to provide administrative control of enrolled students. (Sec. 2)

7.   Specifies that administrative control includes recording a student's participation in a live, remote instruction course on the student's transcript and tracking progress for graduation requirements. (Sec. 2)

8.   ☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal NoteExempts live, remote instruction courses from the statutory remote instructional time limitations for a school's instructional time model. (Sec. 1)

9.   Adds that a school may define instructional time and hours to include live, remote instruction. (Sec. 1)

Tuition

10.  Limits the tuition amounts a community college district governing board may charge, including any mandatory course fee, as follows:

a)   Not more than $125 per dual enrollment course per student for:

i.   Any course that fulfills a lower division general education credit at an in-state public university or community college;

ii. Any science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) course; or

iii.   Any career technical education (CTE) course that is required for a program that results in a certificate, credential or license;

b)   Not more than $25 per dual enrollment course per student whose family income does not exceed 185% of the income limit required to qualify for reduced-price lunches for:

i.   Any course that fulfills a lower division general education credit at an in-state public university or community college;

ii. Any STEM course; or

iii.   Any CTE course that is required for a program that results in a certificate, credential or license. (Sec. 4)

11.  Instructs, for a student enrolled in a dual enrollment course and whose family income does not exceed 185% of the income limit required to qualify for reduced-price lunches:

a)   A community college district to attest in writing to the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) the total number of students who are eligible for and paid the reduced tuition rate and who are enrolled on the 40th day of the course; and

b)   ADE to remit $100 per eligible student to the community college district from the Fund. (Sec. 4)

Fund

12.  Establishes the Fund and directs ADE to administer the Fund. (Sec. 4)

13.  States that Fund monies are continuously appropriated and exempt from lapsing. (Sec. 4)

14.  Appropriates $500,000 from the state General Fund in FY 2023 to the Fund. (Sec. 5)

Miscellaneous

15.  Makes conforming changes. (Sec. 3, 4)

16.  Makes technical changes. (Sec. 4, 5)

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