House committee substitute amends the 1st edition as follows.

Amends proposed GS 115C-102.9, which requires the State Board of Education (SBE) to establish and maintain an electronic dashboard to publicly display information related to digital learning. Replaces the required data to be included, now requiring the following, broken into three categories, disaggregated by public school unit, school and grade level: (1) in-school digital device access, including the number and percentage of students with digital device access in school, with the sources and types of the device; (2) out-of-school digital device access, including the number and percentage of students with access to digital devices outside of school, with the sources and types of devices, and reasons for homes with no devices; and (3) out-of-school internet connectivity, including the number and percentage of students with internet connectivity outside of the school by home connectivity and other reliable access outside school, with type of connectivity and reasons for homes with no connectivity. Adds a new requirement for residential schools to report on out-of-school access and connectivity separately for the dormitories and the student's home. Changes the effective date and application of the provisions in Section 1 of the act to apply beginning with the report due November 15, 2021, based on data for the 2021-22 school year (previously applicable beginning with the 2021-22 school year). 

Clarifies that in the statewide data assessment by the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and the Department of Information Technology (DIT) of out-of-school internet and device access for students obtained during the physical school closure and at-home learning due to COVID-19 during the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school year, the Departments are to review the methods students and schools used to address the lack of access during the specified school years. 

Makes a correction in GS 116-239.8(b) to refer to laboratory schools.

Changes the act's long title.