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House committee hears bill to add instructional hours for Ohio students
Summary
House Bill 145, sponsored by Representative Byrd, would increase required instructional hours for Ohio public school students by 53 hours. Sponsors said the change would reverse part of a 2014 reduction from days to hours; committee members asked about implementation, teacher contracts and costs. No committee vote was taken.
Representative Byrd presented sponsor testimony on House Bill 145, which would increase the required minimum instructional hours for Ohio public school students by 53 hours.
“If this bill were to pass and add 53 hours, we'd go from 1,001 hours in grades 7 through 12 and 910 hours for grades K to 6 to 1,054 hours,” Representative Byrd said. He described the change as an effort to return instructional time that he said was lost when the General Assembly in 2014 changed the requirement from a 180-day standard to an hours-based standard. Byrd said the prior change “took away anywhere from 20 days to 14 days” of instruction depending on district schedules and said time in…
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