ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

House: ED DP 10-0-0-2

HB2069: instructional time models; posting requirements

Sponsor: Representative Taylor, LD 29

House Engrossed

Overview

Directs a school district or charter school to submit adopted instructional time models (ITM) to the Arizona Department of Education (ADE). Requires ADE to post the 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. ยง 15-901.08).

Provisions

1.   Requires each school district or charter school with an ITM to submit the ITM to ADE. (Sec. 1)

2.   Instructs ADE to post on its website:

a)   all ITMs received; and

b)    each ITM's impact on the schools funding, if any. (Sec. 1)

3.   Makes technical and conforming changes. (Sec. 1)

 

 

 

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