From the ECS State Policy Database Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School

This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date]. State Status/Date Level Summary CA Signed into law 09/2012 P-12 California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science A.B. 1663 Partially from bill summary: Amends methodology for establishing tuition fee for the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Scie... More... MD Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Maryland After-School and Summer Opportunity Fund Program H.B. 886 Extends the Maryland After-School Opportunity Fund Program to include summer programs. Provides that only nonpreofit organizations are eligi... More... KY Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Summer Learning Camps S.B. 95 - Summer Learning Camps Outlines rationale for summer learning camps. Encourages development of a summer learning program for children from low-income families and ... More... KY Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Governor's Scholars Program Administration H.B. 278 Transfers the Governor's Scholars Program from the office of the governor to the education and workforce development cabinet. http://www.lrc... More... CA Signed into law 10/2011 P-12 After School Education and Safety Program S.B. 429 From bill summary: Provides that any school that establishes a program pursuant to the After School Education and Safety Program, or establi... More... IL Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Summer Remediation in Reading and Math H.B. 139 Provides that if a student has performed below grade level for two consecutive years, a remedial summer school program must provide an empha... More... CT Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Closing the Achievement Gap/Early Literacy S.B. 929 Sec. 1 - Establishes a task force to address the academic achievement gaps in Connecticut by considering effective approaches to closing the... More... GA Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Remediation H.B. 192 - Remediation Extends for 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years a provision waiving the state from specified reimbursement for additional days of instruction f... More... UT Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Allowable Expenditures of K-3 Reading Improvement Program Funds S.B. 63 Identifies allowable expenditures of K-3 Reading Improvement Program funds, including, among other uses, focused reading remediations throug... More... CA Signed into law 10/2010 P-12 Supplemental Instruction A.B. 1610 - Supplemental Instruction From bill summary: Makes inoperative until July 1, 2013 the requirement that districts offer programs of direct, systematic and intensive su... More... CA Signed into law 09/2010 P-12 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program S.B. 798 Primarily from bill summary: Requires, in any fiscal year in which the total state appropriation for that fiscal year under the 21st Century... More... RI Passed 11/2009 P-12 Task Force to Study Summer Learning Programs H.B. 5967 Creates a thirteen member special legislative task force whose purpose it would be to make a comprehensive study of summer learning programs... More... IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Community Schools H.B. 684 Defines "community school" as a school that partners with its community to provide enrichment and life skill opportunities for students, par... More... IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Summer Food Service S.B. 1977 - Summer Food Service Clarifies that districts must continue to operate a summer breakfast and lunch program as long as they have one or more schools (i) in which... More... CA Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 After School Education and Safety Program A.B. 2 - Section 8 The purpose of the After School Education and Safety Program is to create incentives for establishing before- and after-school enrichment pr... More... RI Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Rhode Island After School and Summer Learning Program Act H.B. 5802 Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to begin planning an initial, demonstration after school and summer learning p... More... RI Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Rhode Island After School and Summer Learning Program Act S.B. 954 Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to begin planning an initial, demonstration after school and summer learning p... More... OR Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Summer school S.B. 484 Requires the Department of Education to establish a pilot program to encourage school districts to provide supplemental summer instruction; ... More... ND Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Summer School Support H.B. 1400 - Summer School Section Summer school courses and programs eligible for payment from the state: 1. a. Remedial mathematics provided to students enrolled in any grad... More... AR Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Smart Core Incentive Funding Program S.B. 918 Creates the Smart Core Incentive Funding Program to provide a financial incentive to assist with a public high school's efforts to encourage... More... IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Assorted Amendments to the School Code S.B. 2482 Repeals the Professional Development Block Grant. Amends requirements related to annual census for special education, such that census must ... More... WV Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Summer School Teaching Staff H.B. 217B Requires county boards filling summer school program positions to give employment preference to professional educators who are regularly emp... More... MO Adopted 07/2008 P-12 SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAMS 5 CSR 50-340.050 Proposes rules regarding standards for summer school programs. MISSOURI 17889 http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/5csr/5c50-340.pdf... More... WY Adopted 07/2008 P-12 Bridges Summer School, Enrichment, Extended Day Grant Chapter 33 Establishes emergency rules regarding grants under the Wyoming Bridges Summer School, Enrichment and Extended Day Grant Program. Sets forth ... More... OK Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Support for Summer Reading, Survey on District Online Testing Capacity S.B. 1769 Relates to schools; provides a school district which has a certain amount of students participating in a summer reading program may be alloc... More... TX Adopted 06/2008 P-12 Intensive Summer Program Grants 19 TAC 1.4.L.4.210 -.214 The Intensive Summer Program purpose is to create pilot programs in which institutions of higher education provide intensive academic instru... More... IL Adopted 01/2008 P-12 Summer Bridges Program 23 IAC 232.50, .60 Strengthen recipient districts' accountability with respect to implementation of the program, chiefly by providing for some quality assuranc... More... CO Adopted 11/2007 P-12 Summer School Grant Program 1 CCR 301-50 Clarifies rules regarding the Summer School Grant Program for Academic Achievement, including funding provisions, curriculum and assessments... More... NY Adopted 08/2007 P-12 Summer Academies and Teacher Professional Development for Middle Grades Math and Science Title 8 NYCRR Section 100.14 and 100.15 Establishes criteria for the award of grants for the Excelsior Scholars program for grade 7 math and science students. Establishes criteria ... More... IL Signed into law 08/2007 P-12 Summer Breakfast/Lunch Program H.B. 1964 Directs a district to develop a plan to have a summer breakfast or lunch (or both) program for each school (i) in which at least 50% of the ... More... WV Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Education Code Amendments H.B. 2189 Amends Education Code in the following ways: 1) Prescribes authorities of county school boards. 2) Expands purposes for which schools may e... More... WY Signed into law 02/2007 P-12 Extended Day & Summer School Programs, Distance Learning/Virtual University & Finance - Alternative Education Updates H.B. 115 Requires the state superintendent of public instruction to review at-risk program strategies funded under the block grant model, specificall... More... TX Adopted 08/2006 P-12 Optional Extended Year Program 19 TAC 2.105.AA.105.1001 Amends rules relating to the optional extended year program for students in kindergarten through grade eleven who are identified as likely n... More... WY Emergency Rule Adoption 06/2006 P-12 Summer School & Extended Day Grant Program Chapter 33 Establishes emergency rules concerning the Bridges summer school, enrichment, and extended day grant programs. Sets forth the grant requirem... More... FL Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Florida Secondary School Redesign Act H.B. 7087 - Section 19 Defines secondary schools as those serving grades 6-12. Specifies that the following guiding principles must be used in the annual preparat... More... ND Adopted 04/2006 P-12 Credentials and Instructional Standards NDAC 67-11-01-01, thru 01-07.1 non-seq, 67-15-02-01 thru 02-07non-seq, 67-19-01-01 thru 01-43 non-seq, 67-20-01-01 thru 01-08, 67-22-01-01thru 01-03, 67- 24-01 thru -01-07 Amends administrative rules pertainingto credentials for Title I coordinator, library media, special education director, special education s... More... WY Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Resource Block Grant Model -- Recalibration H.B. 139 Relates to school finance; implements 2005 recalibration modifications to the state education resource block grant model; clarifies duties o... More... LA Adopted 12/2005 P-12 Summer School and Private Providers LAC 28:CXV.2504 Allows students to attend summer school from private providers if the summer school applications from the private provider are approved by t... More... LA Adopted 12/2005 P-12 Private Summer School Providers LAC 28:LXXIX, Chapter 1-31 Relates to private schools. Adds programs of study and revises summer school policy. Pages 8-34 of 106: http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/... More... OK Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Focus on Reading and Math in Grades K to 3 H.B. 1621 Requires each school district to ensure that instructional time each day of the school year in kindergarten through third grade is focused o... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Pupils With Disabilities H.B. 2432 Changes statutory reference from "extended school year program" to "extended school year services" for students with disabilities. Rewrites ... More... WY Signed into law 02/2005 P-12 School Finance S.F. 47 Continues assistance to school districts for full-day kindergarten programs ($5 million) and the summer school grant program ($4.5 million);... More... CA Vetoed, back in Senate to unfinished business 10/2004 P-12 Community College Postsec. Concurrent Enrollment S.B. 905 Relates to existing law which authorizes a principal to recommend a high school pupil for community college summer session attendance, if th... More... LA Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Fees for Louisiana School of Math, Science, and the Arts H.B. 431 Increases certain fees imposed by the board of directors of the state school of math, science, and the arts. Increases maximum possible sec... More... DE Signed into law 07/2003 P-12 Summer School S.B. 141 Allows the use of indicators other than assessments prior to mandatory summer school; permits other indicators to be used to determine if a ... More... IN Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Joint Summer School Programs; Teacher Testing S.B. 230 Allows a school corporation to enter into an agreement with other school corporations and accredited nonpublic schools to provide joint summ... More... MA Signed into law 08/2002 P-12 Preschool, Extended-Day and -Year Programs for Limited English Proficient Students H.B. 5010 Permits districts to establish full-time or part-time preschool, after-school or summer school programs English language learners programs, ... More... ID Signed into law 07/2002 P-12 Alternative summer school programs H.B. 687 Creates mechanism and funding for alternative summer school programs.... More... MD Signed into law 07/2002 P-12 Maryland Educational Opportunity Summer Pilot Program H.B. 1370 Allows, if federal funds are sufficient, districts in addition to Baltimore and Prince George's County to apply to department for grants to ... More... CO Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Summer School Grant Program and Teacher Pay Incentive Program H.B. 1304 Expands the Summer School Grant Program to provide funding to school districts for the operation of intensive literacy and reading comprehen... More... MD Signed by governor 05/2002 P-12 Maryland Educational Opportunity Summer Pilot Program H.B. 1370 Provides that if additional federal funding becomes available for the Maryland Educational Opportunity Summer Pilot Program, counties other ... More... DE Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Below the Standard Score and Individual Improvement Plan for Promotion S.B. 322 Before enactment of this legislation, this subparagraph banned any 3rd-, 5th- or 8th-grader scoring Well Below the Standard on the state rea... More... KY Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Waivers for Extended Day/Week/Year Programs H.B. 626 Authorizes the commissioner of education to approve district requests for grant waivers that would allow the district to use grants for exte... More... MS Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Extended Day and -Year Programs and Home Rule S.B. 2317 Deletes the automatic repealer on the authority of local school boards to provide extended school day and extended school year programs and ... More... NM Vetoed 04/2001 P-12 Omnibus Bill with Appropriations S.B. 307 Creates public school reading proficiency fund to help train teachers to teach reading and writing to students below grade level; sets up "e... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Extended School Year for Low-Performing Schools S.B. 1387 Extends the date of repeal of existing law authorizing the Compton Unified School District to identify low-performing schools in the distric... More... CA Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Mandatory Summer School S.B. 1683 Renames summer school instructional programs as supplemental instructional programs and would authorize the programs also to be offered befo... More... IL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Safety, School Report Cards, Background Checks, Summer School H.B. 4587 Public Act No. 91-4587; Amends the School Code to provide that the School Safety and Educational Improvement Block Grant Program shall provi... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Remediation, Summer School H.B. 1353 Re-arranges paragraphs of the Standards of Quality pertaining to remediation programs and requirements in order to provide consistency, clar... More...