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1998 SESSION

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SB 425 Opening of the school year.

Introduced by: Richard L. Saslaw | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY:

Opening of the school year. Delineates three "good cause" situations that may justify a waiver of the requirement that the first day of school for students follow Labor Day. These situations include a school division that (i) has been closed an average of eight days per year during any five of the last 10 years because of severe weather conditions, energy shortages, power failures, or other emergency situations; (ii) is providing, in the school year for which the waiver is sought, an instructional program or programs in one or more of its elementary or middle or high schools, excluding the electronic classroom, which are dependent on and provided in one or more elementary or middle or high schools of another school division that qualifies for such waiver, in which case the waiver is applicable only to the opening date for those schools where such dependent programs are provided; or (iii) is providing, in the school year for which the waiver is sought, an experimental or innovative program approved by the Department of Education pursuant to the Standards of Accreditation, in which case the waiver is only applicable to the opening date for those schools where the experimental or innovative programs are offered generally to the student body.


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