At the School Board meeting on Monday, April 8th, the BOE approved calendar option A with a early release day of Wednesday. There was one modification to the calendar, which was that OMS & AHS will release at 1:40 instead of 1:25 for 15 additional minutes of instruction. (AES will release at 1:15pm)
A-PAGE via the District Accountability Committee questioned how the state required minimum number of 1056 hours for Secondary (OMS & AHS) were being met given that the current district policy (IC/ICA) specifically excludes passing time (time between classes) from being included in the definition of "actively engaged in the educational process". While the state does allow passing time to be included in this definition, current district policy does not.
For the 2012-13 school year, the amount of time that students are "actively engaged in the educational process" at OMS is 990 hours, 8 minutes and at AHS is 990 hours, 27 minutes. Both of which are well below the 1056 hours required by state law (by about 11 regular school days). The approved calendar for next year calls for 976 hours at OMS and 994 hours at AHS (with the proposed block schedule). Again, those are still both significantly less than the 1056 required by the state.
It appeared that the district was ready to push though a change to the IC/ICA policy with a revised agenda for the BOE meeting last night. However, at the last minute, they tabled the action item regarding that policy. So our question still remains, how is the district meeting the minimum required 1056 hours of instruction at the middle school and high school level?
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