14 Del. Admin. Code § 701-6.0

Current through Reigster Vol. 28, No. 6, December 1, 2024

Section 701-6.0 - Nontraditional High School Schedules

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.

14 Del. Admin. Code § 701-6.0

8 DE Reg. 1473 (04/01/05)
13 DE Reg. 1452 (05/01/10)
25 DE Reg. 275 (9/1/2021)
25 DE Reg. 405 (10/1/2021)
26 DE Reg. 313 (10/1/2022) (Final)