IJNDA – Online Instruction – Cherry Creek Schools Board of Education

The Board of Education recognizes that enhanced educational services are available as a result of technological advances and that such services can be customized to serve the diverse needs of today's student population. For these reasons, a District online program of instruction shall be created to provide a program of instruction for the education of students through services accessible on the World Wide Web. The program shall be designed to support a standards-based curriculum and online students' attainment of state and District content standards. Eligibility The Administration will develop criteria to determine a student's eligibility for participation in online program, including but not limited to:

agreement to the terms of the District's Networked Resources Acceptable Use Agreement
provision of daily time logs and any other documentation needed for district attendance count purposes
possess or have access to the appropriate electronic equipment and resources to participate in the program.

Resident students of other school districts in Colorado shall be eligible to participate in the program in accordance with Policy JFBB, Inter-District Choice/Open Enrollment. Student Assessments The site teacher shall conduct regular assessment to determine whether the student is progressing on a regular basis toward assigned work and toward attainment of state and District content standards. Each student shall be evaluated, tested and monitored at the same intervals as other students of the same grade level in the student's regular school and shall take all state and District assessments. The site coordinator shall notify any student who is not performing satisfactorily in the program and shall identify other educational alternatives available to the student. Student Activities A student participating in the online program may participate on an equal basis in any extracurricular or interscholastic activity offered by the District. Student Records The records of each student participating in the online program shall be maintained on a permanent basis by this school district. Any and all records maintained for students include, but are not limited to, test, evaluation and District and state assessment results and immunization records. Serving Expelled Students If the online program is part of services provided to a student who has been expelled, mentoring services deemed necessary by the site coordinator shall be part of the program. An expelled student who is participating in the online program is not entitled to participate in any extracurricular or interscholastic activity offered by the District.

Legal References:	C.R.S. § 22-33-104.6 (Online Program)

Adoption Date: October 13, 2003