SB 15 Additional LEA Criteria
Lipan ISD believes that the best instruction delivery method is when students are in their teachers’ classroom.
SB 15 allows LEAs to enroll up to 10% of their total ADA in remote instruction with specific TEA guidelines:
- Based on student information from the preceding school year, if a student received remote instruction for a majority of their instructional days in the previous school year (e.g., 88+ days in a 175-day instructional year), they also must have:
- Achieved satisfactory achievement or higher on each STAAR assessment administered.
- § If a STAAR assessment was not administered but the student was in a grade/subject for which STAAR should have been administered, a different assessment can be administered that shows grade level proficiency in TEKS (e.g., the STAAR Beginning of Year (BOY) assessment).
- Had a number of unexcused absences that is 10 percent or fewer out of all instructional days.
- Earned a grade of C or higher in the foundation curriculum courses taken virtually or remotely in the preceding school year.
If a student did not receive a majority of the student’s instructional time in the preceding school year via remote instruction, then the criteria noted above do not apply to determine student eligibility for remote learning. However, criteria noted in the next section apply to all remote instruction students.
- Based on student information from the current school year:
- The student is enrolled in a school district or open-enrollment charter school.
- The student has reasonable access to in-person services at a district or school facility.
- The student has fewer than 10 unexcused absences while enrolled in local remote instruction over a six-month period.
Please note that for criteria from the current school year, in the event that a student does not meet one of the criteria partway through the school year, LEAs will still receive funding for the first portion of the school year during which all current year criteria were met for that student.
Finally, LEAs may only enroll up to 10% of their total LEA-wide enrollment in a local remote learning program. Any students enrolled for at least a portion of the year in local remote instruction count toward this cap. Additionally, any student that receives remote instruction under an alternative to local remote instruction for a majority of their instructional time during the year would count toward this cap, which could include students who are:
- Medically fragile;
- Placed in a remote learning setting by an admission, review, and dismissal committee;
- Receiving accommodations under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973;
- Served via remote conferencing.
- There are no exceptions to the above criteria.