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Minutes for SB382 - Committee on Education
Short Title
Providing for the administration and proctoring of statewide assessments to virtual school students by such students' virtual schools.
Minutes Content for Tue, Feb 10, 2026
Chairman Erickson opened the hearing on SB382.
Tamera Lawrence, Assistant Revisor, Office of the Revisor of Statutes, gave a brief overview of the bill. (Attachment 1)
Proponent:
Cassandra Barton, Head of School, Insight School of Kansas and Kansas Virtual Academy, said this bill provides improvement to the law allowing virtual state assessments to further improve the testing experience for virtual testers, as well as reduce he burden on virtual students and schools who are exercising their right to test virtually. Currently, virtual school staff are not allowed to proctor the state assessments for their students and virtual schools are required to utilize a specific third-party proctor vendor. This bill gives virtual schools autonomy to determine how their virtual testers will be proctored.
This bill also clarifies that student testing virtually are not required to have two devices for testing sessions if the assessment platform provides integrated camera proctoring. (Attachment 2)
Neutral:
Frank Harwood, Deputy Commissioner Fiscal and Administrative Services, Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE), reported that all schools are required to allow KSDE to monitor testing sessions from time to time. Therefore, KSDE requests the addition of language in the bill that clarifies this requirement and requests language to clarify that virtual schools are responsible for the cost of providing the assessment proctor, in the same manner as in-person testing. (Attachment 3)
Neutral Written only:
Cathy Hopkins and Beryl New, Legislative Liaisons, Kansas State Board of Education (Attachment 4)
No Opponent Testimony
Discussion followed.
Chairman Erickson closed the hearing on SB382.
