IN HB1371

School corporations may choose to calculate instructional time in minutes rather than the traditional 180 instructional days per school year, effective July 1, 2013

Minimum required instructional time if using minutes: 54,900 minutes for grades 1-6 and 65,880 minutes for grades 7-12 (equivalent to 183 instructional days)

Schools using the minutes-based system may count professional development activities as instructional time, up to 900 minutes for grades 1-6 and 1,080 minutes for grades 7-12 per year

School superintendents must certify the amount of instructional time conducted to the department by June 15 of each school year

Schools failing to meet minimum instructional time requirements face reductions in state tuition support distributions, with separate calculation formulas for day-based and minute-based systems