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INTERSTATE
COMPACT ON
EDUCATIONAL
OPPORTUNITIES FOR
Military Children, whose goal is to facilitate the school enrollment of the
children of military personnel during or after tours of duty.
MILITARY FAMILY
LEAVE
An employee with at least 12 consecutive months of employment and for
at least 1,250 hours in the previous year is entitled to take military family
leave up to 10 days (or 80 hours, whichever is less under certain
circumstances). The employee must be the parent, spouse, or a person
who has or had legal custody of a member of the uniformed service who
is called to active duty for a period longer than 30 days or is injured,
wounded, or hospitalized while on active duty.
The leave is without pay, but the school district must continue the same
level of other benefits during this period of leave. (The employee is still
responsible for the same employee share as enjoyed prior to the leave.)
The employee must also exhaust other available leave prior to using this
time.
While a collective bargaining agreement can provide military family leave
benefits that are greater than the benefits established in law, the law also
supersedes any collective bargaining agreement provisions which
provides benefits less than this law, and all collective bargaining
agreements effective after July 2, 2010 must contain provisions similar to
or superior to those in the law.
Active duty does not include active duty for training or basic training.
Violators of this law are “subject to a civil action injunctive relief or any
other relief that a court finds necessary…”
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MINIMUM SCHOOL
YEAR
Effective July 1, 2014, the minimum school year for school districts,
STEM schools, and chartered nonpublic schools is changed from
182 days to 455 hours for students in half-day kindergarten, 910
hours for students in grades 1 through 6 or in all-day kindergarten,
and 1,001 hours for students in grades 7 through 12.68 The act
does not revise the minimum school year for community schools,
which is 920 hours.
In addition, the school week must generally be five days, but there is
no longer any requirement for a minimum school month, which
previously was four school weeks. Likewise, there is no longer a
requirement that a school day be at least five hours long.
Exceptions
Effective July 1, 2014, in order to satisfy the minimum hourly
requirements:
1) A school may count up to the equivalent of two school days per
year when classes are dismissed for individualized parent-teacher
conferences and reporting periods.
(2) A school may count up to the equivalent of two school days per
year when the schools are closed for teacher professional meetings.
(3) For students in grades K through 6, a school may count morning
and afternoon recess periods of not more than 15 minutes each.
(4) Kindergarten students may be further excused for up to the
equivalent of three school days, in order to acclimate to school.
(5) Seniors in high school may be excused for up to the equivalent of
three school days.
However, unlike law effective until July 1, 2014, a school will no
longer be permitted to count any "calamity" days or hours (including
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