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House Bill 1297 |
House Author: Hochberg et al. |
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Effective: 6-19-09 |
Senate Sponsor: Van de Putte |
Previous law restricted flexible school day programs to students in grades 9 through 12 who had dropped out of school or were at risk of doing so or who attended a campus implementing a campus redesign or an approved early college high school plan. House Bill 1297 amends the Education Code to authorize a school district to apply to the commissioner of education to provide a flexible school day program for students in those circumstances regardless of grade level and to provide such a program also for students who, because of failure to meet all attendance requirements, will be denied credit for one or more classes in which the students have been enrolled. The bill authorizes such a student to enroll in a course in an optional flexible school day program offered during the school year or during the period in which school is recessed for the summer to enable the student to earn class credit that the student would not otherwise be able to receive without retaking the class.
The bill authorizes the commissioner to limit funding for the attendance of a student enrolled in a flexible school day program for the purpose of earning class credit to funding only for the attendance necessary for the student to earn class credit that, as a result of attendance requirements, the student would not otherwise be able to receive without retaking the class.