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(MOU) providing for calamity days (and possibly a contingency plan))
does not expire until after July 1, 2014, districts must follow the
agreement or MOU until their expiration. However, any collective
bargaining agreement or renewal executed after July 1, 2014 must
comply with the new requirements for a minimum school year.
See MINIMUM SCHOOL YEAR below.
CALAMITY DAYS –
CONTINGENCY
PLAN
A board of education can adopt a contingency plan for making up to five
school days after using all of five of its allowed calamity days. The plan
must be adopted by September 1 of each school year.
These days can be made up as whole days or by adding 30-minute to
the originally scheduled school day.
While this provision was repealed effective on July 1, 2014, it will remain
in effect for school districts whose collective bargaining agreements (or
memoranda of understanding) required contingency plans beyond the
effective date of the repeal.
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CALAMITY DAYS IN
EXCESS OF
CONTINGENCY
PLAN
In the event that a school district has used all of its allowed calamity
days that do not require make-up and has used the days identified in its
contingency plan, the district can lengthen its school days in increments
of thirty minutes until it has made up each “minimum” school day (5
hours for grades 1-6 and 5½ hours for grades 7-12, both excluding
lunch). However, the district must lengthen its day in order to receive
this credit. Time normally scheduled beyond the minimum school day
cannot be “banked” and then applied later against any excess days
beyond the contingency plan.
While this provision was repealed, effective July 1, 2014, districts must
still abide by any provisions for making up time if they are included in an
existing collective bargaining agreement or memorandum of
understanding until their expiration.
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CALAMITY DAYS –
ON-LINE LESSONS
A school district can make up to three days that schools were closed for
a calamity by using lessons posted to the district’s or school’s web portal
or web site. The district must post a plan with the department of
education by August 1 each year if it wishes to utilize this option. The
plan must include the written consent of the collective bargaining unit
representing the district’s teachers.
Apparently, this method could be used to make up missed days until the
equivalent of three days had been made up in this way.
Teachers must submit by November 1 a sufficient number of lessons for
each course taught by that teacher that school year to cover the number
of make-up days specified in the plan. Teachers may receive up to one
professional development day to create lesson plans for the lessons.
Students will have two weeks to complete the on-line lessons, and the
time will begin on the day that the lesson is posted. If a student does not
have computer access at home, the student will have two weeks from
the date of the school’s reopening (if the lessons were posted prior to
the school’s reopening) to complete the lessons.
Another similar option is for
BLIZZARD BAGS
, which appears above in
this section.
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CAMPAIGN, LEVY
School district staff members cannot be paid “for time spent on any
activity to influence the outcome of an election. However, “attending a
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