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Sponsor pitches adding instructional hours to reverse years-long reduction in Ohio schools
Summary
House Bill 145 would add 53 instructional hours to statewide school requirements, restoring some time lost when the state changed its requirement from days to hours; committee held first hearing and members asked about contracts, logistics and costs.
The House Education Committee heard sponsor testimony on House Bill 145, a proposal to increase the state-required instructional hours for Ohio public schools by 53 hours.
Representative Byrd, the bill’s sponsor, said the measure aims to “return lost instructional time” taken when the General Assembly changed the requirement from 180 days to hour-based requirements in 2014. Byrd told the committee that under current law districts must provide 1,001 hours for grades 7–12 and 910 hours for grades K–6 (as described in testimony) and that the bill would add 53 hours to reach 1,054 hours. Byrd cited comparative figures for other states…
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