256.41  Online learning requirements — legislative findings and declarations.
  1.  The general assembly finds and declares the following:
  a.  That prior legislative enactments on the use of telecommunications in elementary and secondary school classes and courses did not contemplate and were not intended to authorize participation in open enrollment under section 282.18 for purposes of attending online schools, contracts to provide exclusively or predominantly online coursework to students, or online coursework that does not use teachers licensed under chapter 272 for instruction and supervision.
  b.  That online learning technology has moved ahead of Iowa’s statutory framework and the current administrative rules of the state board, promulgated over twenty years ago, are inadequate to regulate today’s virtual opportunities.
  2.  Online learning curricula shall be provided and supervised by a teacher licensed under chapter 272.
2012 Acts, ch 1119, §18

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