Authorizes and establishes standards for virtual schools or programs administering statewide assessments

This bill establishes the Missouri Course Access and Virtual School Program to provide non-classroom instruction to eligible students from kindergarten through twelfth grade who reside in the state. It requires the program to report specific student data to local school districts and ensures that districts hosting virtual students receive state funding based on a weighted average daily attendance formula. Additionally, the bill allows public and charter schools to enroll students in virtual courses if they determine it is in the student's best educational interest, while mandating that districts pay content providers directly for approved courses. The legislation also sets rules for how virtual school performance counts in statewide assessments and prevents recent transfers from virtual schools from negatively impacting a new school's annual performance score for one year.