Kansas Statutes Chapter 72. Schools § 72-3712. Same; definitions

(a) “Virtual school” means any school or educational program that: (1) Is offered for credit; (2) uses distance-learning technologies which predominately use internet-based methods to deliver instruction; (3) involves instruction that occurs asynchronously with the teacher and student in separate locations; (4) requires the student to make academic progress toward the next grade level and matriculation from kindergarten through high school graduation; (5) requires the student to demonstrate competence in subject matter for each class or subject in which the student is enrolled as part of the virtual school; and (6) requires age-appropriate students to complete state assessment tests.

(b) “School district” means any school district which offers a virtual school.

(c) Except as provided by the virtual school act, words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in K.S.A. 72-5132, and amendments thereto.