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SCR 147

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Nontraditional Instruction and Virtual Instruction Models Task Force.

2025 Regular Session

A task force will study nontraditional and virtual instruction in Kentucky schools to assess effectiveness, costs, impacts on outcomes, and possible SEEK funding adjustments.

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Bill Summary · SCR 147

Summary — SCR 147 (2025)

Title: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Nontraditional Instruction and Virtual Instruction Models Task Force

Main purpose

SCR 147 directs the Legislative Research Commission (LRC) to create a task force to study the use, effectiveness, costs, and impacts of nontraditional instruction days and virtual instruction models in Kentucky public schools. The study covers both short-term nontraditional days and full-time virtual instruction.

Key provisions

  • Establishes the Nontraditional Instruction and Virtual Instruction Models Task Force and directs it to investigate and make recommendations on:
    1. Effectiveness of nontraditional and virtual instruction by grade band: primary–5, 6–8, 9–12.
    2. Prevalence and efficiency of nontraditional instruction use across districts.
    3. Teacher preparedness to deliver instruction under these models.
    4. Impacts on learning outcomes for student subgroups (including English language learners, exceptional children, and at‑risk students).
    5. Needed adjustments to the Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) funding formula to reflect actual costs and possible cost savings when districts use these models.
  • Task force composition (8 members; final membership subject to LRC approval):
    • 3 House members appointed by the Speaker (one co-chair).
    • 3 Senate members appointed by the President of the Senate (one co-chair).
    • 1 House member appointed by the House Minority Floor Leader.
    • 1 Senate member appointed by the Senate Minority Floor Leader.
  • Meeting and reporting timeline:
    • Must meet at least monthly during the 2025 Interim.
    • Submit findings and recommendations to the LRC for committee referral by December 1, 2025.
  • LRC retains authority to instead assign the study to an interim joint committee or subcommittee and to set a different completion date.

Who is affected

  • Students across all grade bands, with particular focus on ELL students, students with disabilities, and at‑risk populations.
  • Teachers and school staff responsible for delivering nontraditional/virtual instruction.
  • Local school districts and their budgets (potential SEEK funding adjustments).
  • State policymakers who may act on the task force’s recommendations.

Background and context

  • Nontraditional instruction days have been used in Kentucky since the 2013–14 school year.
  • Cloverport Independent School District has operated a full‑time virtual school since 2023.

Procedural status & sponsors

  • Sponsor: Senator Inouye (primary).
  • Introduced in the Senate in early March 2025; adopted by the Senate (voice vote) March 27, 2025; received in the House March 28, 2025 and referred to the Committee on Committees (House). The resolution is a study directive (concurrent resolution), not a statute.

Potential impact

The task force’s findings could lead to policy recommendations on virtual learning standards, teacher training, equity measures for vulnerable student groups, and adjustments to the SEEK funding formula to reflect cost differences when districts use nontraditional or virtual instruction.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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