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Caswell County board weighs calendar changes after district falls short of required instructional hours
Summary
Superintendent reported the district was about 23 hours short of the state-required annual instructional hours; the board discussed converting optional/release days to student days and adding 10 minutes to elementary mornings. A motion to convert Feb. 20 and March 27 to instructional days was made and seconded; no roll-call vote appears in the transcript.
The Caswell County Board of Public Education discussed options to make up instructional time after district staff reported the system had fallen below the state-required annual instructional hours.
"The state requires schools to provide 1005 instructional hours each year," Speaker 2 told the board, and said the district had fallen short "about 23 hours and a minute" as of Feb. 2. Speaker 2 outlined four approaches: convert scheduled optional or early-release days to full student days (listed examples: Feb. 20, March 26, March 27, June 9); add instructional minutes to the school…
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