REVISED
SESSION OF 2022
SUPPLEMENTAL NOTE ON SUBSTITUTE FOR
SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 2512
As Amended by House Committee of the Whole

Brief*
Sub. for Sub. for HB 2512 would:
● Make appropriations for the Kansas State
Department of Education (KSDE) for FY 2022, FY
2023, and FY 2024 (Sections 1-3);
● Establish the Every Child Can Read Act (New
Sections 4 and 5);
● Authorize boards of education of school districts to
allow students enrolled in grades 6 through 12 to
earn course credits through alternative educational
opportunities (New Section 6);
● Amend reporting requirements for the Kansas
State High School Activities Association (KSHSAA)
(Section 7);
● Require local school boards to annually review
state academic assessments and utilize such
assessments and the school district’s building
needs assessment when reviewing and approving
the school district’s budget (Section 8);
● Amend the compulsory school attendance statute
to consider students enrolled in a combination of
public and private school during the required
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*Supplemental notes are prepared by the Legislative Research
Department and do not express legislative intent. The supplemental
note and fiscal note for this bill may be accessed on the Internet at
http://www.kslegislature.org
 periods of time as compliant with compulsory
attendance requirements (Section 9);
● Amend the Virtual School Act to prohibit any virtual
school from offering or providing any financial
incentive for a student to enroll in a virtual school
(Section 10);
● Amend the virtual school finance system to provide
funding on a per-course basis for a student who is
19 years of age and under and meets other certain
requirements (Section 11);
● Amend the Kansas Virtual School Act to require
that a virtual school’s graduation rate shall only
include those students who enrolled in a virtual
school with sufficient credits to be expected to
graduate in the same school year as such student’s
cohort group (Section 11);
● Amend the Tax Credit for Low Income Students
Scholarship Program (Section 12);
● Amend the school and school district accountability
reports law and require KSDE to prepare and
submit to the Governor and the Legislature a
summary report regarding student achievement
(Section 13); and
● Establish the Capital Improvement State Aid Fund
and identify transfers as revenue transfers from the
State General Fund (Section 14).
The bill would also make technical changes.
Sections 1-3 of the bill would be in effect upon
publication in the Kansas Register, sections 4 and 5 would be
in effect beginning July 1, 2023, and sections 6-14 would be
in effect beginning July 1, 2022.

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Appropriations for FY 2022, FY 2023, and FY 2024
(Sections 1-3)
FY 2022 (Section 1)
The bill would appropriate the following from the State
General Fund (SGF) in FY 2022 for KSDE:
● $178,986 for the Education Superhighway;
● $102.8 million for State Foundation Aid; and
● $48.5 million for Supplemental State Aid.
The bill would modify the SGF appropriation, in FY
2022, for KSDE. The bill would lapse moneys appropriated
from the SGF in FY 2022:
● $25,749 for operating expenditures;
● $7.8 million for the Kansas Public Employees
Retirement System (KPERS) non-Unified School
Districts (USDs);
● $35.1 million for the KPERS-USDs; and
● $66.4 million for State Foundation Aid for FY 2023.
FY 2023 (Section 2)
The bill would appropriate $6.4 billion, including $4.2
billion SGF, for FY 2023 for KSDE. This would include $5.3
billion, including $4.2 billion SGF, for the major categories of
school finance, KPERS-USDs, and KPERS-non-USDs.
Appropriations from the SGF would include the following:
● $14.2 million for operating expenditures;
● $15.8 million for Supplemental State Aid;

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● $80,000 for Center for READing;
● $37.7 million for KPERS-non-USDs;
● $520.8 million for KPERS-USDs;
● $2.8 million for the ACT and WorkKeys
Assessments Program;
● $10.5 million for the Mental Health Intervention
Team Pilot Program;
● $300,000 for the Juvenile Transitional Crisis Center
Pilot;
● $67,700 for Education Commission of the States
dues;
● $10,000 for the School Safety Hotline;
● $5.1 million for the School District Juvenile
Detention Facilities and Flint Hills Job Corps
Center Grants;
● $2.5 million for School Food Assistance;
● $1.3 million for the Mentor Teacher Program;
● $110,000 for Educable Deaf-blind and Severely
Handicapped Children’s Programs Aid;
● $520.4 million for Special Education Services Aid;
● $360,693 for Governor’s Teaching Excellence
Scholarships and Awards;
● $1.8 million for Professional Development State
Aid; and
● $5.0 million for School Safety and Security Grants.

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 The bill would also appropriate funding from several no-
limit special revenue funds, including federal funds, and fee
funds. The bill would appropriate the following from the
Children’s Initiatives Fund (CIF):
● $375,000 for the Children’s Cabinet Accountability
Fund;
● $20.7 million for CIF grants;
● $8.4 million for the Parent Education Program, also
known as Parents as Teachers;
● $4.2 million for the Pre-K Pilot Program;
● $1.4 million for Early Childhood Infrastructure; and
● $500,000 for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.
The bill would also provide for the following transfers:
● $50,000 on July 1, 2022, or as soon as moneys are
available, from the Family Children Trust Account
of the Family Children Investment Fund of the
KSDE to the Communities in Schools Program
Fund of the KSDE;
● $550,000 on March 30, 2023, and $550,000 on
June 30, 2023, from the State Safety Fund to the
SGF to reimburse costs associated with services
provided by other state agencies on behalf of
KSDE;
● $73,750, quarterly, from the State Highway Fund of
the Department of Transportation to the School
Bus Safety Fund of KSDE;
● An amount certified by the Commissioner of
Education from the Motorcycle Safety Fund of the
KSDE to the Motorcycle Safety Fund of the Kansas

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 Board of Regents, to cover costs of driver’s license
programs conducted by community colleges; and
● $70,000 from the Universal Service Administrative
Company E-rate program federal fund in the
Kansas Board of Regents to the Education
Technology Coordinator Fund of KSDE.
The bill would appropriate $260,535 from the Kansas
Endowment for Youth Fund for the Children’s Cabinet
administration.
The bill would also authorize the Commissioner of
Education to transfer any part of an SGF appropriation for
KSDE to another SGF appropriation in KSDE for FY 2023.
The bill would appropriate $41.4 million from the
Expanded Lottery Act Revenues Fund for KPERS-non-USDs.
The bill would require KSDE to establish a fee for
service to be paid by districts, not to exceed $4.0 million, to
require school districts and attendance centers with 50.0
percent or more of the students enrolled in grades 7 through
12 scoring level one or level two on the statewide math
assessment to implement a virtual math program. The bill
would require the program to be customized to Kansas
curriculum standards, be evidence-based, not impose any fee
upon students, provide tutoring in multiple languages, provide
professional development for the implementation of the
program, and have been implemented in other states over the
previous eight fiscal years. The fee for the program would be
based on the number of students within the district who have
scored level one or level two on the statewide math
assessment in the previous school year.
Such districts would be required to track and report to
KSDE twice during school year 2022-2023, as determined by
KSDE, the number of attendance centers and students using
a virtual math program, the number of teachers participating
in professional development provided by a virtual math
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program, and the effect of the program on student academic
proficiency. KSDE would be required to submit a summary
report to the House Committee on K-12 Education Budget
and the Senate Committee on Education including a list of
school districts and attendance centers that are using a
virtual math program and a comparison between low-usage
and high-usage school districts and attendance centers.
FY 2024 (Section 3)
The bill would appropriate from the SGF for FY 2024
$2.6 billion for State Foundation Aid and $568.2 million for
Supplemental State Aid. The bill would also authorize
expenditures from the State School District Finance Fund and
the Mineral Production Education Fund.

Every Child Can Read Act (New Sections 4 and 5)
Purpose (New Section 4)
The bill would provide a legislative statement of intent
regarding the promotion of academic achievement in schools.
Every Child Can Read Act (New Section 5)
The bill would enact the Every Child Can Read Act to
promote third-grade literacy initiatives. This section would
require the board of education of each school district to
provide opportunities for students to participate in targeted
educational interventions. The bill would require literacy to be
attained through the Science of Reading, evidence-based
reading instruction, and necessary competencies to attain
proficiency. Schools would be required to follow and use the
framework of KSDE’s Dyslexia Handbook.
Each school district would be required to ensure that the
competencies are achieved through literacy instruction in:

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 ● Phonics;
● Vocabulary development;
● Reading fluency; and
● Reading comprehension.
The bill would require each school district to measure
student achievement through state assessments and through
other universal screening and assessment tools that are
approved by the local board of education, or by KSDE.
School districts would be required to provide targeted and
tiered interventions designed to match a student’s individual
needs through additional contact hours with the student,
which may include additional one-on-one instruction, small
group instruction, tutoring, or summer school.
Additionally, school districts would be required to ensure
that each third-grade teacher communicates with the parents
of each third-grade student at least once each semester
regarding the student’s individual deficiencies and any
recommended interventions for such student. Such teacher-
to-parent communication would be required to provide the
parent with:
● A summary of the Every Child Can Read Act and
the goals of the Act;
● The student’s assessment data that pertains to
literacy;
● Recommended interventions for the student; and
● How the school district tracks outcomes of those
interventions.
The bill would also require each school district to
annually report information regarding the school district’s
implementation of the Every Child Can Read Act to KSDE
including:

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 ● The school district’s interventions and outcomes of
such interventions;
● The number of third-grade students in the district;
● The screening and assessment data that the
district is using to evaluate student progress in
literacy; and
● The percentage of all students and student
subgroups who are proficient, moving towards
proficiency, or deficient.
The bill would require KSDE to annually submit a
summary of such reports to the Governor and Legislature.

Alternative Educational Opportunities (New Section 6)
The bill would authorize boards of education of school
districts to adopt policies to allow students enrolled in grades
6 through 12 to earn course credits through alternative
educational opportunities with sponsoring entities. The bill
would define the following terms:
● “Alternative educational opportunity” would mean
the instruction that primarily occurs outside the
classroom with a sponsoring entity; and
● “Sponsoring entity” would mean a business, not-
for-profit organization, nonprofit organization, trade
association, parent of a student, teacher, or
administrator that partners with a school district to
provide an alternative educational opportunity to
students.
Alternative Education Policy
The bill would require a school district’s policy to
establish the following:

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 ● Eligibility requirements for sponsoring entities;
● Requirements for the provision of alternative
educational opportunities by sponsoring entities;
● Procedures for a sponsoring entity to submit a
proposal to the school district to provide an
additional educational opportunity to students;
● Criteria the school district will use to evaluate
proposals; and
● Course credit that may be earned through the
alternative educational opportunity.
Alternative Education Proposals
The bill would authorize a school district to accept a
proposal from a sponsoring entity if the alternative education
opportunity:
● Provides an additional learning opportunity through
a work-based, pre-apprenticeship, apprenticeship,
internship, industry certification, or community
program; and
○ Is approved by the State Board of Education
(State Board) as an alternative educational
opportunity; or
○ Complies with the school district policies
adopted pursuant to the program; and
● Is managed and directed by a licensed teacher
employed by the school district.
State Board of Education
The bill would allow a sponsoring entity to petition the
State Board to approve an alternative education opportunity
that is provided through such sponsoring entity if such
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alternative education opportunity provided through such
sponsoring entity is generally applicable on a statewide or
regional basis across multiple school districts. The State
Board would be required to approve or deny each petition
proposing an alternative educational opportunity within 90
days of receipt of such proposal.
If the State Board denies the proposal, it would be
required to provide the sponsoring entity with the reasons for
such denial. If the State Board approved such proposal, any
school district would be permitted to implement the alternative
education opportunity. The State Board would be permitted to
revoke any such approved proposal if it determines that the
sponsoring entity fails to comply with the requirements of the
program.
Reporting Requirement
The bill would also require school districts to report
information to KSDE on the alternative educational
opportunities that are authorized in the school district, the
names of the sponsoring entities, the number of students
participating, and the number of credits earned.

Kansas State High School Activities Association
Reporting (Section 7)
The bill would make Kansas State High School Activities
Association board members, officers, and employees
mandatory reporters of child abuse or neglect.

Using Needs Assessment in Budget Process (Section 8)
The bill would require local school boards (boards) to
annually review state academic assessments and utilize such
assessments and the school district’s (district) building needs
assessment when reviewing and approving the school
district’s budget.
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 The bill would require a board to utilize the district’s
building needs assessment during approval of the school
district budget. Boards would be required to include in their
minutes during approval of the budget that the board received
the district’s needs assessment, how the board evaluated
said assessment, and how said assessment was utilized in
the district’s budget.
The bill would require a board to conduct an annual
review of state assessment results for its district and that the
review document the following findings:
● Barriers that must be overcome for all students to
achieve above level 2 proficiency on state
assessments;
● Budget actions that should be taken to address
and remove barriers; and
● The amount of time the board estimates it will take