Title 13, EDUCATION

For students entering the ninth grade in the 2006-2007 school year and thereafter, a school district shall require that each student enrolls in courses of instruction necessary to complete the recommended high school program established by the South Dakota Board of Education Stan…

For purposes of §§ 13-33-20 to 13-33-23 , inclusive, distance learning is the technology and educational process used to provide instruction when the student and primary instructor are not physically present at the same time or place. Source: SL 2005, ch 104 , § 1.

No distance learning provider may provide courses through distance learning to any student in an accredited elementary or secondary school in this state unless the distance learning provider has a certificate issued by the secretary of the Department of Education authorizing the …

The South Dakota Board of Education Standards shall promulgate rules pursuant to chapter 1-26 defining a distance learning provider, and establishing the requirements and criteria that an applying provider must meet in order to be issued a distance learning certificate by the sec…

The board shall also promulgate rules pursuant to chapter 1-26 establishing priorities and eligibility for distance learning courses. Source: SL 2005, ch 104 , § 4.

If the parent or guardian of a child is ordered to transfer to a military installation in this state pursuant to a military order, the child is eligible, upon issuance of the order, to be registered and enrolled with a state-approved distance learning provider by the school distr…

There is created the South Dakota virtual school. The South Dakota virtual school shall be under the control of the Department of Education. The South Dakota virtual school shall provide choice accessibility, flexibility, quality, and equity in curricular offerings for students i…

The South Dakota Virtual School Advisory Council is established. The council shall advise the Department of Education, the South Dakota Board of Education Standards, education-related organizations, and other education groups on issues related to distance learning. The council sh…

The council shall consist of seven members appointed by the secretary of education with broadly based representation from entities involved in virtual education efforts statewide. Source: SL 2006, ch 83 , § 3.

Members of the council shall be appointed for two-year terms, except that four of the members of the initial council shall be appointed to two-year terms, and three of the members of the initial council shall be appointed for one year. All subsequent appointments shall be for ter…

The Department of Education may promulgate rules pursuant to chapter 1-26 to coordinate course offerings by the South Dakota virtual school, to award course credits earned by students taking classes from the South Dakota virtual school, and to establish criteria for school distri…

No school district may grant credit for any course successfully completed through distance learning as defined in § 13-33-20 unless the course is offered through the South Dakota Virtual School. However, a school district may grant credit for a distance learning course offered th…

The school board of any school district may maintain as a part of the public schools adult education courses, summer schools, kindergartens, and nurseries under the rules adopted by the South Dakota Board of Education Standards. Source: SDC 1939, §§ 15.2523 (6), 15.3603; SL 1939,…

Any school accredited by the Department of Education shall accept transfer credits earned by a student for any course taken by the student from another school accredited by the Department of Education outside the regular school term as established pursuant to § 13-26-2 . However,…

In all public and nonpublic schools located within the state there shall be given regular courses of instruction in the Constitutions of the United States and the State of South Dakota. Such instruction shall begin not later than the opening of the eighth grade and shall continue…

Unless the governing body elects, by resolution, effective for not less than one or more than four school terms, to do otherwise, character development instruction shall be given in all public and nonpublic elementary and secondary schools in the state to impress upon the minds o…

No sectarian doctrine may be taught or inculcated in any of the public schools of the state. Source: SDC 1939, § 15.3103; SL 1955, ch 41 , ch 14, § 3.