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Sponsor proposes adding 53 instructional hours statewide to reverse decline since 2014
Summary
Representative Byrd presented House Bill 145, which would add 53 instructional hours to current statewide requirements to partially restore time lost when Ohio moved from a days-based to an hours-based requirement in 2014; committee members raised implementation, bargaining, cost and scheduling concerns.
Representative Byrd told the House Education Committee that House Bill 145 would add 53 instructional hours to current statewide requirements — increasing the standard from 1,001 hours to 1,054 hours — to reverse what he described as an erosion of students’ time in class since the state shifted from days to hours in 2014. "If this bill were to pass and add 53 hours, we'd go from a thousand and 1 hours in grades K to 12 to…
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