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AL HB543
Bill
Status
4/19/2011
Primary Sponsor
Stephen Hurst
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AI Summary
HB543 - Flexible School Calendar Act of 2011
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Allows local boards of education to provide 180 full instructional days or hourly equivalent per school year, with flexibility to extend daily teaching hours instead of adding calendar days.
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Permits local boards to make up weather-related or other cancelled instructional days by adjusting teaching hours on specified days, subject to State Superintendent approval.
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Establishes parameters for school calendars: instruction must begin no earlier than the Monday two weeks before Labor Day (or August 17 if August 31 is a Monday) and end no later than the Friday immediately before Memorial Day.
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Requires local boards to submit annual academic calendars to the State Superintendent for approval within specified parameters.
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Becomes effective the first day of the third month following passage and Governor approval.
Legislative Description
Public schools, K-12 instructional days, 180 instructional days or hourly equivalent for Foundation Program, local board of education with approval of State Superintendent of Education authorized to make up cancelled instructional days by adjusting the hours of actual instruction, flexibility for local boards of education in establishing school calendar by instructional hours and date parameters, Flexible School Calendar Act, Sec. 16-13-231 am'd.
Education
Last Action
Pending third reading on day 22 Favorable from Education Policy with 1 substitute
6/1/2011