Bill Text: GA SR646 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Senate; expressing the will to ensure necessary conditions for expanded high-quality digital learning opportunities for students of this state

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-02-23 - Senate Passed/Adopted [SR646 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-SR646-Enrolled.html

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12 LC 93 0023

Senate Resolution 646

By: Senator Rogers of the 21st

ADOPTED SENATE

A RESOLUTION

Expressing the will of the Senate to ensure the necessary conditions for expanded high-quality digital learning opportunities for the students of this state; and for other purposes.

WHEREAS, academic success in the 21st century and therefore the future of our state's economy is contingent upon our students' access to high-quality K-12 educations; and

WHEREAS, today's students have access to the Internet, technology, and devices unavailable to previous generations; and

WHEREAS, excellent educational resources are becoming abundant in digital form, such as online and blended learning opportunitites; and

WHEREAS, the primary barriers preventing our students from accessing these high-quality digital learning opportunitites are outdated state statutes and policies; and

WHEREAS, the Senate understands the urgent need for its leadership in removing the policy barriers standing between our children and the digital learning opportunities that can ensure their success, and our state's, in this Information Age; and

WHEREAS, in August 2010, Governors Jeb Bush and Robert Wise launched the Digital Learning Council with leaders in education, government, philanthropy, business, technology, and think tanks to define the actions that lawmakers and policymakers must take to spark a revolution in K-12 digital learning, with their actions resulting in the creation of the ten Elements of High Digital Learning; and

WHEREAS, it is in the intent of this resolution that the ten elements be used as a framework from which to draft legislation specific to each state's needs and not a mandate on any one body.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE that this body adopts the Digital Learning Council's Ten Elements of High Quality Digital Learning, and it is the will of the Senate that the elements be incorporated as necessary through future legislation as well as immediate state regulation, strategic planning, guidelines, and procedures on the part of the Department of Education, local school boards, and any other relevant public or private bodies.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate is authorized and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to the American Legislative Exchange Council.