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Sponsors push bill to add instructional hours to Ohio school year
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House Bill 145 would add 53 hours to the state minimum instructional requirement, sponsors said at a House Education Committee hearing, arguing the change would restore time lost when the state moved from a days‑based to an hours‑based requirement in 2014.
House Bill 145 would add 53 hours to Ohio’s minimum instructional‑time requirement for public schools, sponsors told the House Education Committee at a first hearing, raising the state standard to 1,054 hours from the current statutory level cited in testimony.
Representative Byrd, the bill’s sponsor at the hearing, said the change would reverse a long‑term ‘‘erosion’’ of classroom time that began when the General Assembly replaced a days requirement (180 days) with hours in 2014.…
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