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OH SB18
Bill
Status
2/1/2011
Primary Sponsor
Kevin Bacon
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AI Summary
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Increases the number of calamity days schools can excuse without making them up from three to five days for the 2010-2011 school year for closures due to disease epidemic, hazardous weather, equipment failure, building damage, or utility failure.
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Allows schools to make up excess calamity days (beyond the five excused) through multiple methods: extending school day length in half-hour increments, using extra instructional time in already-longer school days, or online lesson completion with two-week student completion deadlines.
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Permits schools to submit plans allowing students to access and complete classroom lessons posted online to make up additional closure days, with accommodations for students without home computer access.
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Prohibits school districts from refusing to transport students attending nonpublic or community schools solely because those schools scheduled makeup days on dates outside the public school district's calendar.
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Declares the bill an emergency measure effective immediately to address unavoidable school closures during the 2010-2011 school year.
Legislative Description
To excuse up to five, instead of three, school calamity days for the 2010-2011 school year; to modify the manner in which schools may make up excess calamity days; to prohibit school districts from declaring it impractical to transport nonpublic or community school students solely on days scheduled by the student's school to make up calamity days; and to declare an emergency.
School calamity days-excuse up to 5 in 2010-2011/modify manner of making up
Last Action
Committee Report - S
2/23/2011