Current through Register Vol. 28, No. 9, March 1, 2025
6.1 For unit count purposes, if a career
technical student in a school utilizing nontraditional schedules receives,
during the course of the year, the same amount of instruction the student would
have received under a traditional class schedule, the district shall average
the time and calculate instructional time on a weekly basis; providing however,
that a career technical student receives a minimum of 300 minutes of
instruction per week.
6.1.1 The following
exemplifies a situation with the required minimum minutes and hours for a full
time career technical student and shows that the heavy concentration of minutes
or hours could occur either in the fall or the spring of the year:
Fall and Spring Career Technical = 300 minutes per
week
Spring and Fall Career Technical = 1500 minutes per
week
1800 /2 = 900 minutes per week
6.2 For unit count purposes, a district shall
meet the following criteria to include selected students participating in a
district's Distance Education/Twilight Program in the September 30 unit count:
6.2.1 For purposes of this section, a
Distance Education/Twilight Program shall mean a district approved credit
bearing program as follows:
6.2.1.1 Students
must be currently suspended indefinitely or expelled by the district and
enrolled in the district's alternative placement program; or
6.2.1.2 Students with disabilities enrolled
in the district's Distance Education/Twilight Program for credit recovery only
must be receiving services as decided upon by the IEP team and reflected in the
IEP on-site; or
6.2.1.3 The
inclusion of students with non-behavior issues and not special education in the
unit count can only be included if there is not a break in educational service
and they meet the entry criteria of the program and the additional criteria
outlined in subsections 6.2.2 through 6.2.9;
6.2.2 Students and their parents or guardians
must attend a mandatory program orientation session provided by the district
staff. A sign in sheet and signed agreement will be kept on file and serve as
sufficient evidence to meet this requirement.
6.2.3 Students must be enrolled for a minimum
of three courses.
6.2.4 Students
must be required to complete a minimum number of hours of active engagement
each week that they are enrolled in the program. The minimum number of hours
should not be less than three hours per week.
6.2.5 Students must be enrolled in
eSchoolPLUS, the statewide pupil accounting system.
6.2.6 The district must keep records on file
for the school year of the unit count on work completed and time spent working
on the educational program for each enrolled student. The district must submit
a sample to the Department of Education that may serve as sufficient evidence
to meet this requirement.
6.2.7 The
district must provide evidence of staff monitoring the progress of each student
and providing feedback to participating students and their parents or
guardians.
6.2.8 The district must
show evidence on how progress of students enrolled in the program is
incorporated into their academic record for meeting the district's graduation
requirements.
6.2.9 An audit file
containing information listed in subsection 6.2 and its subsections must be
maintained on all students participating in the program and must be presented
upon request to the Department of Education or the State Auditor's
Office.
