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Instruction Time & Subject Requirements. Effective in the 20182019 school year, HB 2442 repealed the seven-hour (420 minutes) school day requirement from Texas Education Code (TEC), 25.082; allowing school districts to adopt a shortened school day. Students eligible to participate in the Optional Flexible School Day Program (OFSDP) will receive full funding if they comply with TEC, 29.0822, and applicable rules. 7, 2021). Physical Activity : 30 minutes 3 days per week w/ classroom . Statutory Citation: 105 ILCS 5/18-8.05 (F)(1) and (2)(a) Is it necessary to record hourly attendance? This includes decades of combined service as classroom teachers and school administrators. House Bill (HB) 2610, passed by the 84th Texas Legislature, amends the Texas Education Code (TEC), 25.081, by striking language requiring 180 days of instruction and replacing this language with language requiring districts and charter schools to operate for a minimum of 75,600 minutes (including intermissions and recess). The commissioner of education is exercising his authority under TEC, 25.081 (b), to approve a reduction in the minimum number of required 75,600 minutes of operation for all LEAs during the first six-week attendance reporting period of the 2021-2022 school year. days and 14 shortened days. Catch up on the latest, including * an update on the recent weathers impact to the academic calendar; * upcoming community forums on middle and high school attendance zones; * a new Feedback & Applications resource []. Since school districts and open-enrollment charter schoolsas part of their third TSDS PEIMS data submissiondo not report their minutes to TEA until after the school year is complete, districts may not realize they are subject to a reduction of funding until time has expired to correct their calendars. Accelerated Instruction HB 4545 establishes new requirements for schools implementing accelerated instruction for students who do not pass the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR). Students should not be required to be at grade level in each subject; rather, student learning should show progress commensurate with their ability. Period-Minutes 1-80 2-80 3-80 4-80 320 Student Attendance Minutes Absent 60 80 80 220 Attendance Minutes Allowed 0 60 80 80 Half-Day . This is a way for the district to not have to add additional days unless they want to.. Parents should not be required to use the same textbooks or methods as public schools. The new law, which was passed as House Bill 2610, counts recesses and other intermissions such as lunch as instructional time. There are many implications that need to be considered, including pay for hourly employees, child care, adjusting bell schedules for impacted programs across the district and adjusting transportation schedules., Mansfield school Superintendent Jim Vaszauskas told trustees at their Sept. 22 meeting that administrators may bring a couple of recommendations for changes to the spring semester, but theyll be minimum.. In any event, a teacher may not be required to supervise students during the duty-free lunch more than one time per week. A planning and preparation period may not be less than 45 minutes within the instructional day. The table below indicates the minimum annual instructional minutes that will be offered by middle schools. b. endstream
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In practice, no teacher or librarian in this area should be denied a thirty-minute duty-free lunch. A. Current Texas Rule leaves the determination of caseload for these services to the . A minimum of 60 minutes daily - uninterrupted : 1.0 hrs./daily . Parents should be required to provide instruction in the same subjects as public schools. Arts : 45 min, 2 times/wk . per period, and A/B and 4 x 4 block schedules must provide at least 94 minutes. . (f) A school that, prior to January 1, 2011, provides more than the minimum minutes specified in paragraph (a) of this subsection (3) shall not decrease the amount of physical activity as a result of the policy specified in paragraph (a) of this subsection (3); except that the school may decrease its required minutes of physical activity in Attendance waiver applications available for the 20182019 school year include staff development (2,100 minutes total), low attendance, and missed school day(s) due to a calamity. The Board values a well-rounded curriculum . LISDs valuing of school days over total minutes is based on the educational experience of our leadership team. Early release waivers previously approved for the 20182019 school year are rescinded. (h-1) Subject to rules adopted by the commissioner under Section 48.007(b), time that a student participates in a course or program provided under Section 48.0071(b) shall be counted as part of the minimum number of instructional hours required for a student to be considered a full-time student in average daily attendance for purposes of this . Texas mandates at least 135 minutes of moderate or vigorous structured physical activity per week in include the time required to meet due process requirements during the instructional day; . The minimum school year shall consist of one hundred seventy-seven days of instruction. States that have required subjects but no accountability. A personnel shortage exists when, despite reasonable efforts of a school district to use non-teaching personnel or community volunteers to supervise students during lunch, there is no other personnel available. Instruction time for ages 7 to 14 are total minutes per day devoted to a subject multiplied by 185 (instructional days per year). COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. fzcE/ !=`h`` @A4PLLV@Z%e`e$)fEGL"LkN3b^W7Je?L00[ iiV op RL[6\D G. Why doesnt Leander ISD increase instructional minutes to shorten the academic calendar? endobj
Numeracy/Mathematics Blocks are to be no less than 300 minutes per five-day cycle. This means that they are not paid for their lunchtime and that if they are asked to work during their lunchtime (while they are not being paid), they are entitled to full compensation for that complete lunch, even if what they were asked to do only takes several minutes. "The rationale was to give districts more flexibility for making up. requirements. Minimum Annual Instructional Time Requirements The following table is a summary of the minute/hour requirements for an instructional program (A.R.S. Log in, SIGN OUR BILL OF RIGHTS FOR HOMESCHOOLED CHILDREN, Click here for our full policy recommendations. Can we leave school for lunch? House Bill 2610 - Questions and Answers.2, After hard work, Williams gets well-earned rest, Customer, security guard sentenced to combined 20 years in shooting at Arlington lounge, Man killed in crash between motorcycle and car in Arlington Saturday night, 2 nursing home restaurants fail, 3 receive low scores in Arlington health inspections, Man dies after hes shot multiple times in SUV at Arlington apartment complex, police say, Speeding motorcyclist killed in single-vehicle crash in Arlington, police say, Texas man, 3 wives accused of kidnapping woman after she refused to be 4th wife, cops say, Driver, 18, dies at hospital two weeks after Arlington collision; passenger also died. $HQ+@ 0{ SixstatesAlaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Mississippi, Utah, andVirginiaallow parents to homeschool with no mandated subjectsor instruction time requirements and noassessment mechanism. The goal is to develop a schedule that promotes subject inter-connectedness, resulting in 1,755 total instructional minutes (including recesses and lunch) per 5-day week. At the Jan. 26 Board meeting, Trustees approved the 202324 academic calendar, closing out a monthslong process of community feedback and consideration of multiple options. However, as noted under the Funding section of this letter, school districts and charter schools failing to meet HB 2442 minutes requirements may be subject to a reduction of their full ADA for the year. xnH GiI yM,2ca(K0-yH*|VU7)b[=dDbYi^>h|(fd}]q%^f^_nc_wo_/_D[|ff`FHjftMn_/
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