Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

ON MARCH 25, 2024, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 2593, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites the bill to, instead, authorize a local board of education to contract for services with a nonprofit or for-profit entity for the operation and management of an adult high school. An adult high school operated by a nonprofit or for-profit entity under a contract with a local board of education must receive state and local school funding from the local board of education for the first year of its operation based on anticipated enrollment. A contract entered pursuant to this amendment must satisfy the following criteria: (1) Provide the maximum enrollment for the adult high school; (2) Require the nonprofit or for-profit entity to provide the local board of education with the anticipated enrollment at least four months before the adult high school opens for its first year of operations, which must not exceed the maximum enrollment set forth in the contract with the local board of education; and (3) Require the local board of education to adjust payments to contracted adult high schools no less than three times per year, in the months of October, February, and June, based on changes in revenue, student membership, or student services.