Okla. Stat. tit. 70, § 70-3-145.8v1

A. It shall be the duty of each virtual charter school approved

and sponsored by the Statewide Charter School Board to keep a full

and complete record of the attendance of all students enrolled in

the virtual charter school in one of the student information systems

approved by the State Department of Education and locally selected

by the virtual school from the approved list.

B. By July 1, 2020, the governing board of each virtual charter

school shall adopt an attendance policy. The policy may allow

attendance to be a proportional amount of the required attendance

policy provisions based upon the date of enrollment of the student.

The attendance policy shall include the following provisions:

1. The first date of attendance and membership shall be the

first date the student completes an instructional activity.

2. A student who attends a virtual charter school shall be

considered in attendance for a quarter if the student:

a. completes instructional activities on no less than

ninety percent (90%) of the days within the quarter,

b. is on pace for on-time completion of the course as

defined by the governing board of the virtual charter

school, or

c. completes no less than seventy-two instructional

activities within the quarter of the academic year.

3. For a student who does not meet any of the criteria set

forth in paragraph 1 or 2 of this subsection, the amount of

attendance recorded shall be the greater of:

a. the number of school days during which the student

completed the instructional activities during the

quarter,

b. the number of school days proportional to the

percentage of the course that has been completed, or

c. the number of school days proportional to the

percentage of the required minimum number of completed

instructional activities during the quarter.

C. For the purposes of this section, “instructional activities”

shall include instructional meetings with a teacher, completed

assignments that are used to record a grade for a student that is

factored into the student’s grade for the semester during which the

assignment is completed, testing, school-sanctioned field trips, and

orientation.

D. Each statewide virtual charter school approved and sponsored

by the Statewide Charter School Board shall offer a student

orientation, notify the parent or legal guardian and each student

who enrolls in that school of the requirement to participate in the

student orientation, and require all students enrolled to complete

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the student orientation prior to completing any other instructional

activity. The Statewide Charter School Board shall promulgate rules

to develop materials for orientation.

E. Any student that is behind pace and does not complete an

instructional activity for a fifteen-school-day period shall be

withdrawn for truancy. The virtual charter school shall submit a

notification to the parent or legal guardian of a student who has

been withdrawn for truancy or is approaching truancy.

F. A student who is reported for truancy two times in the same

school year shall be withdrawn and prohibited from enrolling in the

same virtual charter school for the remainder of the school year.

G. The governing board of each statewide virtual charter school

shall develop, adopt, and post on the school’s website a policy

regarding consequences for a student’s failure to attend school and

complete instructional activities. The policy shall state, at a

minimum, that if a student fails to consistently attend school and

complete instructional activities after receiving a notification

pursuant to subsection E of this section and reasonable intervention

strategies have been implemented, a student shall be subject to

certain consequences including withdrawal from the school for

truancy.

H. If a statewide virtual charter school withdraws a student

pursuant to subsections F and G of this section, the virtual charter
lete instructional activities after receiving a notification

pursuant to subsection E of this section and reasonable intervention

strategies have been implemented, a student shall be subject to

certain consequences including withdrawal from the school for

truancy.

H. If a statewide virtual charter school withdraws a student

pursuant to subsections F and G of this section, the virtual charter

school shall immediately notify the student’s resident district in

writing of the student’s disenrollment.

I. The Statewide Charter School Board may promulgate rules to

implement the provisions of this section.