As used in this chapter, the term:
(1) "Multidistrict online provider" means:
(a) A private or nonprofit organization that
enters into a contract with a school district to provide online courses or
programs to K-12 students from more than one school district;
(b) A private or nonprofit organization or a
school district that enters into contracts with multiple school districts to
provide online courses or programs to K-12 students from those districts;
or
(c) Except as provided in (c)(i)
and (ii) of this subsection, a school district that provides online courses or
programs to students who reside outside the geographic boundaries of the school
district.
(i) "Multidistrict online provider"
does not include a school district online learning program in which fewer than
ten percent of the students enrolled in the program are from other districts
under the interdistrict student transfer provisions of
RCW
28A.225.225.
(ii) "Multidistrict online provider" also
does not include regional online learning programs that are jointly developed
and implemented through an interdistrict cooperative program between two or
more school districts or between one or more school districts and an
educational service district, unless the annual average headcount of students
who reside outside the geographic boundaries of those school districts and who
are enrolled in the regional online program is ten percent or more of the total
program enrollment headcount. Any agreement establishing such a program must
address, at minimum, how the districts share student full-time equivalency for
state basic education funding purposes and how categorical education programs,
including special education, are provided to eligible students.
(2) "Online course"
means a course, or grade-level course work, in which:
(a) More than half of the course content is
delivered electronically using the internet or other computer-based methods;
and
(b) More than half of the
teaching is conducted from a remote location through an online course learning
management system or other online or electronic tools; and
(c) A certificated teacher has the primary
responsibility for the student's instructional interaction pertaining to the
online course. Primary responsibility means the teacher is the principal
individual who provides instructional interactions that may include, but are
not limited to, direct instruction, review of assignments, assessment, testing,
progress monitoring, and educational facilitation; and
(d) Students have access to the teacher
synchronously, asynchronously, or both.
An online course may be delivered to students at school as part
of the regularly scheduled school day. An online course also may be delivered
to students, in whole or in part, independently from a regular classroom
schedule.
(3)
"Online school program" means a school program that offers a sequential set of
online courses or grade-level course work that may be taken in a single school
term or throughout the school year in a manner that could provide a full-time
basic education program if so desired by the student. Students may enroll in
the program as part-time or fulltime students.
An online school program may be delivered to students at school
as part of the regularly scheduled school day. An online school program also
may be delivered to students, in whole or in part, independently from a regular
classroom schedule.
(4)
"Online course provider" is an online provider that offers individual online
courses that are not delivered as an online school program.
(5) "Online provider" means any provider of
an online course or program, multidistrict online providers, all school
district online learning programs, and all regional online learning
programs.
(6) "Accrediting
organizations" means the designated bodies identified by the superintendent of
public instruction and published on the superintendent of public instruction
web site. Accrediting organizations are for providers to use to satisfy the
accreditation qualification for being an approved online provider.
(7) "Affiliate provider" means a school
district that:
(a) Provides online courses
offered by one or more approved online provider that provides the course
content, the technology platform, and the instructional component of the
courses; and
(b) Does not modify
the content or instruction of the approved provider's offerings. An affiliate
provider may not offer to its students any online course or courses that are
provided by a nonapproved online provider.
(8) "Single-district provider" means a school
district online provider that is not a multidistrict online provider or an
affiliate provider.
(9) For the
purposes of this section, "primarily" is defined as more than half.
(10) "Course success rate" is the percentage
of total online enrollments where the student received a grade for the course
that was one of the following: A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D+, D, P, CR, S.
Courses marked as E, F, N, NC, U, or W are not considered successful
outcomes.