This section adds a new section to an existing chapter 28A.320. Here is the modified chapter for context.
School districts that have discontinued the provision of in-person instruction to all or most students in response to an emergency must, when resuming in-person instruction through a phased, hybrid, or otherwise noncomprehensive process, prioritize the offering and delivery of in-person instruction to the following:
Students in foster care;
Students experiencing homelessness;
Students recently released from a juvenile rehabilitation facility or other facility providing education services to students in an institutional setting;
Students with plans developed under section 504 of the rehabilitation act of 1973; and
Students who have 10 or more unexcused absences within any month during the current school year.
For purposes of this section, "emergency" means a natural event, mechanical failure, or an action or inaction by one or more persons, including negligence and threats, that: (a) Is beyond the control of both a school district and its employees; and (b) has the direct or indirect effect of rendering one or more school district facilities unsafe, unhealthy, inaccessible, or inoperable. An emergency does not include any labor dispute between a school district board of directors and any employee of the school district.