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DESE guidance on SB 727 forces Cape Girardeau schools to use AMI days to protect incentive funding
Summary
District academic staff said state guidance tied to Senate Bill 727 created a separate 169-day accounting layer that makes use of AMI days necessary to preserve planned incentive funding, prompting immediate schedule and operational decisions after a late December guidance release.
Academic services staff told the Cape Girardeau Board of Education on Jan. 27 that state guidance issued after passage of Senate Bill 727 changed how instructional time is calculated and compelled some schools to use AMI days to protect state incentive funding.
Mister Russell, speaking for Academic Services, said the district has operated under a familiar calculation (described in the meeting as 104 days) but that DESE's guidance…
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