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Bill would prevent schools doing E-learning / V-learning from losing funding

For a second straight year, schools which took some of their classes online due to the pandemic won’t lose money over it, under a bill headed for the House floor.

Indiana law says if more than half your classes are held online, you’re a virtual school and receive less money. That created problems when school started last fall, with illnesses and quarantines causing a wave of e-learning days.

House Education Chairman Bob Behning (R-Indianapolis) says even Indiana Secretary of Education Katie Jenner wasn’t immune. In the first two months of the school year, he says Jenner’s daughters spent four weeks in e-learning due to quarantines.

Behning says legislative leaders realized even before the session began that the quarantines could cause a repeat of the virtual-school dilemma. The Senate has already passed a bill unanimously to make sure schools get their full funding. The House could vote next week.

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