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PSD board debates longer school days and unified bell schedule after instructional‑minutes review
Summary
Staff presented a 32‑page Instructional Minutes Action Team report that finds many elementary grades out of compliance under new state reporting rules and proposes either level‑aligned days (elementary 6:54; middle 7:22; high 7:25) or a system‑aligned 7:15 day. Directors weighed costs, transportation efficiencies, community engagement and timing for any change.
Poudre School District staff told the Board of Education on Oct. 7 that a new state data collection and a 2024 law requiring more precise accounting of instructional minutes have revealed compliance gaps in many elementary grades and prompted a district action team to produce a 32‑page report with possible paths forward.
Chief Technology Officer Bud Hunt and lead assistant superintendent Dr. Tracy Guile presented the action team’s findings and said the state’s new collection asks for total school day hours, total instructional hours, recess and passing hours and other elements that require a new, more granular calculation. The change exposed a problem: under one local interpretation, many elementary grades do not meet the required instructional minutes when recess and passing time are excluded.
"This is the problem statement the action team has been working on since July," Hunt said, describing the team's work to…
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