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Bermudian Springs board favors switching to hour-based calendar to reduce required makeup days
Summary
Board members signaled support for moving from a day-count to an hour-count school calendar after administrators said the district currently exceeds required instructional hours; administration will return a formal calendar for a February vote.
At the Jan. 13 caucus, the board discussed a recent law allowing districts to measure the school year by hours instead of days. Speaker 1 briefed the board: under the hour-count option the requirements are 900 instructional hours for K–6 and 990 hours for grades 7–12. She said the district currently exceeds those minimums by roughly 15 days.
Board members said hours…
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