From the ECS State Policy Database Scheduling/School Calendar--Year Round

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 IL Signed into law 08/2011 P-12 Provides that if certain specified schools remain on academic watch status for two years, subject to the availability of federal appropriation money, the state board must allow the local school board to operate the school on a state board-approved pilot full-year school plan upon expiration of its teachers' current collective bargaining agreement. Directs a school board to notify the state board of its intent to operate the school on a full-year school plan. Requires a minimum 215 days of student attendance, including not more than 4 institute days, during a 12-month period in a school on a full-year school plan. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/97/PDF/097-0370.pdf Title: H.B. 1415 Source: www.ilga.gov MD Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Requires the state board of education to explore the use of innovative school scheduling models, including extended year, year-round schooling, or other school scheduling models that do not allow for prolonged lapses in instructional time, in low-performing or at-risk public schools. The state board is also required to encourage local boards to use the school scheduling models that are determined to be most effective in enhancing student achievement in low-performing or at-risk public schools. In addition, the bill requires the state to include the funding of these school scheduling models as part of the state's application to the United States Department of Education for the Race to the Top Fund. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb0439t.pdf Title: H.B. 439 Source: http://mlis.state.md.us CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Commencing with the 2004-05 school year, bars a school district from operating a Concept 6 program unless the district operated such program continuously since the 2003-04 school year. Defines a Concept 6 program as one in which a district operates on a 3-track year-round calendar in which each track provides fewer than 180 days, but no fewer than 163 days, of instruction per school year. Requires a district, as a condition of operating a Concept 6 program, to present to the State Department of Education a comprehensive action plan detailing the strategy and steps to be taken annually to eliminate the use of the Concept 6 program as soon as practicable and no later than July 1, 2012. Requires a district that plans to operate a Concept 6 program after June 30, 2006, and after July 30, 2009, to submit specified reports to the Superintendent of Public Instruction that establish substantial progress has been made toward meeting its annual goals stated in the comprehensive action plan and that it has developed a specific school building plan to provide adequate pupil capacity to eliminate the Concept 6 program. Authorizes the State Board of Education to appoint a monitor to oversee the district if it finds that substantial progress has not been made or a specific school building plan has not been developed and the reason for the failure is not due to circumstances beyond the control of the district. Prohibits the operation of a Concept 6 program after July 1, 2012. Requires the department to conduct a survey to determine whether school districts operating a Concept 6 program will phase out this program by the 2009–10 fiscal year, and to submit the survey to specified education committees of the Legislature and to the Department of Finance. Requires the Legislature to determine, based on the survey, whether to repeal the authority of a school district to operate a Concept 6 program prior to July 1, 2012. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1501-1550/ab_1550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 1550 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Vetoed 09/2002 P-12 Continues to allow school districts to operate a program of multitrack year-around scheduling for as few as 163 days in each fiscal year only until July 1, 2008. Title: A.B. 2027 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IL Signed into law 07/2002 P-12 Amends the State aid formula provisions of the School Code. Provides that in districts in which all buildings hold year-round classes, days of attendance in July and August shall be added to the month of September and any days of attendance in June shall be added to the month of May. Makes other calculations of the Average Daily Attendance for year-round school buildings. Title: S.B. 1524 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Requires the superintendent to comply with prescribed provisions of the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 in making calculations for the year-round school grant program. Excludes one classroom for the first 800 pupils at a schoolsite, or 2 classrooms for schoolsites with over 800 pupils, from the definition of teaching station for purposes of determining existing school building capacity if certain conditions are met. Title: S.B. 1602 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet