ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-sixth Legislature

Second Regular Session

 

HB 2373: instructional time model; posting requirement

Sponsor: Representative Diaz, LD 19

Committee on Education

Overview

Directs the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) to post all adopted instructional time models (ITMs) on its website.

History

Laws 2021, Chapter 299 authorizes school district governing boards and charter school governing bodies to adopt any ITM as prescribed by statute to meet statutory minimum annual instructional time and hours requirements. An adopted ITM must ensure students receive the minimum instructional time or hours prescribed by statute through specified methods of instruction or learning.

Under an ITM, a school may define instructional time and hours to include in-person instruction and remote instruction. A school may provide up to 40% of its total instructional time in a remote setting without impact to its funding. However, if a school provides instructional time in a remote setting beyond the 40% threshold, ADE must fund the instructional time exceeding the threshold at 95% of the base support level that would have been otherwise calculated for the school. ADE is required to annually submit a list of schools that provide more than 40% of allowed instructional time in a remote setting to the State Board of Education and the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools.

Finally, under an ITM, a school may reallocate any minimum instructional time or hours per course to other courses on a per-student basis, as well as modify learning times and schedules for students. A school's attendance policies must reflect the instructional time and hours policies prescribed under its ITM (A.R.S. § 15-901.08).

Provisions

1.   Directs ADE to post all ITMs adopted by schools, including each ITM's impact to a school's funding, on its website.

2.   ☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal NoteMakes technical and conforming changes. (Sec. 1)

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