SB 6163-S - DIGEST
(SUBSTITUTED FOR - SEE 2ND SUB)

Creates the expanded learning opportunities council to advise the governor, state legislature, and the superintendent of public instruction regarding an expanded learning opportunities system, with particular attention paid to solutions to summer learning loss.

Creates the summer knowledge improvement pilot program to provide state funding for an additional twenty school days for three consecutive school years for students at an approved school to receive academic instruction outside of the school year established for other schools in the school district.

Authorizes school districts with an eligible school to submit a plan to the office of the superintendent of public instruction to participate in the pilot program.

Requires state funding for each school in the pilot program to be equal to twenty days of the average daily per student amount of all the basic education and nonbasic education funding provided by the state to the school for the regular one hundred eighty-day school year, including transportation.

Requires the state institute for public policy to conduct an evaluation of the pilot program.