{"data":{"id":"us-ks/k.s.a.-72-3712","jurisdiction":"us-ks","citation":"K.S.A. 72-3712","heading":"Same; definitions.","body":"As used in the virtual school act:\n(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.\n(b) \"School district\" means any school district which offers a virtual school.\n(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.","path":["Chapter 72.—SCHOOLS","Article 37.—TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION AND VIRTUAL SCHOOLS"],"source_url":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch72/072_037_0012.html","current_through":"2025 legislative session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-10-15T06:28:16Z","sha256":"b253d03f075207cfe527bdafa83ba28c28c90779774bd6d7e95c0979fee7b65f","source_id":"us-ks","stale":false,"prev":"us-ks/k.s.a.-72-3711","next":"us-ks/k.s.a.-72-3713"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}