Oklahoma Digital Learning Landscape
| State virtual school? | NO |
| Multi-district fully online schools? | YES |
| Online learning requirement for graduation? | NO |
| State approval process for online providers? | YES |
| State approval process for online courses? | YES |
Oklahoma has six multi-district online charter schools, the Oklahoma Supplemental Online Course Program (OSOCP), and several district programs.
The multi-district fully online schools served 26,311 students in SY 2021-22, after enrolling 39,584 in SY 2020-21 and 21,557 students during SY 2019-20. Epic is the largest of the fully schools with 20,584 student enrollments for SY 2021-22. The Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board (SVCSB) was created to have sole authority to authorize virtual charter schools in Oklahoma and maintains descriptions and performance data for all virtual charters.
The Oklahoma Online Course Catalog, managed by the OSOCP, contains a list of courses available from approved course providers with associated costs, accreditations, a quality review scores for each course, and the rate of successful completion. Courses are certified by the SVCSB for a period of five years. Additional courses may be added to the Online Course Catalog annually by state approved vendors.
District programs include:
Tulsa Public Schools Virtual Academy offers a full-time virtual school to its Pre-K-12 students.
Oklahoma City Public Schools’ e3 online program provides a full-time option for Pre-K-12 students within the district.
Virtual Edmond serves students 6-12 within Edmond Public School boundaries.
Moore Virtual Academy provides full-time options for district students in grades 7-12.
Supplemental online courses are also available through both the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University.
State Policies
No major legislation impacting online and/or blended learning was passed January through August 2022.
SB 1238 (2021) amends 70 O.S. 2021, Section 3-145.5. The law relates to the school day, clarifying that nothing shall prohibit a student from transfering to a fulltime virtual education program.
SB1816 (2012) created the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board; SB267 (2013) amended the original legislation. The board offers oversight of the operations and is the sole authorizer of all statewide virtual charter schools; it also established policies and procedures for accepting, approving, disapproving, and renewing statewide virtual charter school applications. SB267 also prevented a school district from offering a fully online education to students who reside outside the district.
Oklahoma statute 70-1-111 allows districts to provide supplemental online courses available to students using online technology “inside or outside of public school site locations.”