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

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 MN Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Establishes a minimum number of hours for student instruction.  Sets the hours at 425 hours per year for kindergarten pupils, 935 hours for pupils in grades 1 to 6 and 1,020 hours per year for pupils in grades 7 to 12. Clarifies that this section does not supersede the commissioner's approval authority of a four-day school week under section 124D.126. (Article 1, Sec 3) http://wdoc.house.leg.state.mn.us/leg/LS87/1/HF0026.0.pdf Title: H.F. 26 Source: http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us CA Vetoed 07/2010 P-12 Authorizes administrators of an After School Education and Safety Program to provide activities on weekends. Provides costs associated with weekend activities must be paid from a program's maximum grant or supplemental grant awarded. Provides that except for programs funded by the federal 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, participation of pupils in the weekend activities should not be included in the attendance reported to the state department of education for the calculation of either the maximum grant amount or a supplemental grant amount. Authorizes before-school programs to operate on weekends. Provides that priority for After School Education and Safety Program funding must be given to programs with expiring grants if these programs have met projected pupil outcomes set forth in Section 8484 (i.e., http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=edc&group=08001-09000&file=8483.3-8484.5.duplicate). Bill text: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1851-1900/ab_1876_bill_20100708_enrolled.pdf Governor's veto message: http://users.activatedirect.com/fs/distribution:letterFile/yvcee9xanplikz_files/z0v2ckbj1ppp4e Title: A.B. 1876 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 10/2009 P-12 Extends the authority to operate one or more schools on a 4-day week and apply those minimum annual instructional time requirements and other specified requirements, to the Alpaugh Unified School District, beginning in the 2010-11 fiscal year. Provides that if a school operating on a 4-day school week fails to achieve its Academic Performance Index growth target for two consecutive years, the authority to operate a 4-day week would be permanently revoked commencing with the beginning of the following school year. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0651-0700/ab_691_bill_20091011_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 691 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov MO Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Act allows school boards to establish a four-day school week instead of five-day school week by the adoption of a resolution by a majority vote of board members. Any school district that does so must file a calendar with the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. A minimum term for a school district adopting a four-day school week includes 142 days and 1044 hours of pupil attendance. A school district that adopts a four-day school week and subsequently meets at least two fewer performance standards on its annual performance report over a two year period must revert to a five-day school week. If the school district then meets the same number of performance standards it had met prior to adopting the four-day school week, it can resume a four-day school week. Current law requires a school district to make up the first six days of school lost or canceled due to inclement weather and half the number of days lost of canceled in excess of six days. This act provides that such make-up will occur if necessary to ensure that the district's students will attend a minimum of 142 days and a minimum of 1044 hours for the school year. School districts that adopt a four-day school week may schedule make-up days on Friday. http://www.senate.mo.gov/09info/pdf-bill/tat/SB291.pdf Title: S.B. 291--Four Day School Week Source: http://www.senate.mo.gov WA Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Authorizes waivers from the one hundred eighty-day school year requirement in order to allow four-day school weeks; finds that school districts are seeking innovations to reduce operating costs and preserve limited resources for the primary purpose of student learning. Chapter 543 http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1292-S.PL.pdf Title: H.B. 1292 Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/ CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Relates to a 4-day school week. Extends requirements, including that participating schools achieve their API growth targets to the Potter Valley Community Unified School District. Authorizes the State Board of Education to waive specified consecutive-day operating requirements for schools operating requirements for preschools, before and after school programs, community day schools, regional occupational centers, independent study, continuation high schools, child nutrition and food service programs. Chapter 661 http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm Title: A.B. 1889 Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov MI Vetoed 06/2003 P-12 For purposes of eligibility to receive state aid, changes minimum day requirements to minimum hour requirements, thus requiring each district to provide at least 1,098 hours of pupil instruction per school year. Specifies that before a district changes its schedule to a 4-day school week, the local board must hold at least two public hearings on the issue of a 4-day school week. If the board decides to make the change, it must adopt a resolution that includes all of the following: (a) A statement in writing pledging that the costs savings from the change will be allocated to classroom instruction and will not be used for pay increases. (b) A statement in writing indicating that the change is being made because the board has determined that it will result in budget savings and stabilize or enhance pupil performance in the district. http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billenrolled/senate/pdf/2003-SNB-0364.pdf Title: S.B. 364 Source: www.michiganlegislature.org VA Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Authorizes a school board to approve a four-day school week under certain conditions, so long as a minimum of 990 hours of instructional time is provided for grades one through 12 and 540 hours for kindergarten. No alternative plan that reduces the instructional time in the core academics shall be approved. The Standards of Accreditation (SOA) (8 VAC 20-131-150) set the standard school year at 180 days, with the standard school day for students in grades one through 12 to "average at least 5-1/2 hours, excluding breaks for meals, and a minimum of three hours for kindergarten." The SOA permit school divisions to develop alternative schedules for meeting these requirements as long as a minimum of 990 hours of instructional time is provided for grades one through 12 and 540 hours for kindergarten. Such alternative plans must be approved by the local school board and by the Board of Education under guidelines established by it. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?031+ful+CHAP0724 Title: H.B. 2806 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/ MT Signed into law 02/2003 P-12 Transfers the authority for approving the conduct of school on Saturday in the case of an emergency from the Superintendent of Public Instruction to the school district trustees. http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/2003/billhtml/HB0078.htm Title: H.B. 78 Source: StateNet