With the start of the 2022-2023 school year more than a month away, the Brownsville Independent School District is taking applications for remote learning.
The application process opened Friday and will remain open until 5 p.m. Monday, July 11.
Remote learning is made possible with the passage of Senate Bill 15 in September 2021, which allowed classes to be taught remotely to students from kinder to 12th grade. The bill was passed because the state was dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.
As per the bill, the district may only enroll up to 3,600 of BISD’s district total enrollment. Students wishing to attend remote learning must meet the following eligibility requirements:
>>Be enrolled in a school district or open enrollment charter school.
>>The student achieved satisfactory achievement or higher on each STAAR/EOC assessments administered in Spring 2022.
>> he students in K-3rd grade achieved grade level proficiency in TEKS. Other assessments that will be used include; STAAR/EOY (2022), TPRI/Tejas LEE(2022), and mClass (2022).
>>The student has 18 or less absences (10 percent) out of all instructional days for the 2021-2022 school year.
>>The student earned a C or higher in the foundation curriculum (English Language Arts and Reading, Math, Science and Social Studies) in courses taken in the preceding school year.
The following are the steps for admission:
>> Parents apply for remote learning;
>> Parents with multiple children must submit one application per child;
>> Application is reviewed by remote learning committee;
>> The student is evaluated through TEA criteria.
Students admitted to remote learning must maintain Brownsville ISD attendance requirements, academic performance, and practice appropriate online etiquette.
Parents will be notified by e-mail of acceptance or denial to remote learning no later than August 5, 2022 by 5 p.m. Remote Learning will begin August 16, 2022.
The BISD school district has an enrollment of 40,702 students. It has 35 elementary schools, 10 middle schools, seven early college high schools, and three alternative schools.
