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Chapter 6. Four-day School Week of California Education Code >> Division 3. >> Title 2. >> Part 22. >> Chapter 6.
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the Pacific Unified
School District, the Leggett Valley Unified School District, and the
Reeds Creek Elementary School District may operate one or more
schools in their respective school districts on a four-day school
week, if the school district complies with the instructional time
requirements specified in Section 37701 and the other requirements of
this chapter.
(b) If a school district operates one or more schools on a four-day week pursuant to this section and the program for the school year provides less than the 180 days of instruction required under Section 46200, as it read on January 1, 2013, the Superintendent shall reduce the local control funding formula grant apportionment pursuant to Section 42238.02, as implemented pursuant to Section 42238.03, for the average daily attendance of each affected grade level, by 0.0056 multiplied by that apportionment for each day less than what was required by subdivision (a) of this section, as this section read on January 1, 2013, up to a maximum of five days. If a school district operates one or more schools on a four-day school week pursuant to this section and the program provides less than the minimum instructional minutes required under Section 46201, as it read on January 1, 2013, the Superintendent shall reduce the local control funding formula grant apportionment pursuant to Section 42238.02, as implemented pursuant to Section 42238.03, for the average daily attendance of each affected grade level, by the amount of that apportionment multiplied by the percentage of the minimum required minutes at that grade level that the school district failed to offer.
(c) A school district with an exclusive bargaining representative may operate a school on a four-day school week pursuant to this section only if the school district and the representative of each bargaining unit of school district employees mutually agree to that operation in a memorandum of understanding.
(d) Notwithstanding subdivisions (a), (b), and (c), upon a determination that a school district identified in subdivision (a) equals or exceeds its local control funding formula target computed pursuant to Section 42238.02 as determined by the calculation of a zero difference pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 42238.03, the school district, as a condition of apportionment pursuant to Section 42238.02, as implemented pursuant to Section 42238.03, shall offer 180 days or more of instruction per school year, and meet the minimum minute requirements pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 46207.
(b) If a school district operates one or more schools on a four-day week pursuant to this section and the program for the school year provides less than the 180 days of instruction required under Section 46200, as it read on January 1, 2013, the Superintendent shall reduce the local control funding formula grant apportionment pursuant to Section 42238.02, as implemented pursuant to Section 42238.03, for the average daily attendance of each affected grade level, by 0.0056 multiplied by that apportionment for each day less than what was required by subdivision (a) of this section, as this section read on January 1, 2013, up to a maximum of five days. If a school district operates one or more schools on a four-day school week pursuant to this section and the program provides less than the minimum instructional minutes required under Section 46201, as it read on January 1, 2013, the Superintendent shall reduce the local control funding formula grant apportionment pursuant to Section 42238.02, as implemented pursuant to Section 42238.03, for the average daily attendance of each affected grade level, by the amount of that apportionment multiplied by the percentage of the minimum required minutes at that grade level that the school district failed to offer.
(c) A school district with an exclusive bargaining representative may operate a school on a four-day school week pursuant to this section only if the school district and the representative of each bargaining unit of school district employees mutually agree to that operation in a memorandum of understanding.
(d) Notwithstanding subdivisions (a), (b), and (c), upon a determination that a school district identified in subdivision (a) equals or exceeds its local control funding formula target computed pursuant to Section 42238.02 as determined by the calculation of a zero difference pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 42238.03, the school district, as a condition of apportionment pursuant to Section 42238.02, as implemented pursuant to Section 42238.03, shall offer 180 days or more of instruction per school year, and meet the minimum minute requirements pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 46207.
The school district shall provide on an annual basis, while
operating a school on a four-day school week, not less than 560 hours
of instructional time for kindergarten, not less than 700 hours of
instructional time for grades 1, 2, and 3, and not less than 845
hours of instructional time for grades 4 to 12, inclusive. The school
district may exceed these minimum instructional times except that no
pupil in a kindergarten shall be kept in school more than four hours
in any day, exclusive of recesses. The school day may not exceed
eight hours, nor may the school week be less than four days.
Prior to operating a school on a four-day school week, the
school district shall secure the approval of the governing board of
the district and of any collective bargaining agents representing
employees of the school district.
A school site council in the school district shall be
involved in the planning and evaluation of a four-day school week.
The school district shall consider the impact of the longer
schoolday on primary grade pupils, and the impact of the four-day
school week on working parents who may be required to find child care
services for their schoolage children due to the shortened school
week.
If a school district elects to operate a school on a
four-day school week as authorized by this chapter, the school
district shall be entitled to receive the same support, but not more
support, from the State School Fund due to the average daily
attendance at the schools within the school district that it would
have received if the school district had been operating under the
provisions of law relating to the 175-day school year.
If the school district elects to operate a school on a
four-day school week pursuant to this chapter, the reduced number of
schooldays in the school district shall not affect the rights of
certificated or classified employees of the school district with
regard to classification, tenure, or notice, and shall not otherwise
affect the contract rights of the employees.
If a school operating on a four-day school week pursuant to
Section 37710.3, 37710.5, 37711, or 37712 fails to achieve its
Academic Performance Index growth target pursuant to Section 52052,
the authority of that school to operate on a four-day school week
shall be permanently revoked commencing with the beginning of the
following school year.
Beginning in the 2004-05 fiscal year, the following school
districts in San Diego County may operate one or more schools in
their respective districts on a four-day school week if the districts
comply with the instructional time requirements specified in Section
37701 and the other requirements of this chapter:
(a) Borrego Springs Unified School District.
(b) Julian Union Elementary School District.
(c) Julian Union High School District.
(d) Warner Unified School District.
(a) Borrego Springs Unified School District.
(b) Julian Union Elementary School District.
(c) Julian Union High School District.
(d) Warner Unified School District.
(a) Beginning in the 2013-14 fiscal year, the Moorpark
Unified School District may operate one or more high schools offering
a middle college program in the school district on a four-day school
week, if the school district complies with the instructional time
requirements specified in Section 37701 and the other requirements of
this chapter. The state board may waive the five-consecutive-day
operating requirements for a middle college program that operates on
a four-day school week pursuant to this section, provided that the
school district meets the minimum time requirement for the middle
college program.
(b) If the school district operates one or more schools on a four-day school week pursuant to this section, and the program for the school year provides fewer than the 180 days of instruction required under Section 46200, as it read on January 1, 2013, the Superintendent shall reduce the local control funding formula grant apportionment pursuant to Section 42238.02, as implemented pursuant to Section 42238.03, for the average daily attendance of each affected grade level, by 0.0056 multiplied by that apportionment for each day less than what was required in subdivision (a) of this section, as this section read on January 1, 2013, up to a maximum of five days. If the school district operates one or more schools on a four-day school week pursuant to this section, and the program provides fewer than the minimum instructional minutes required under Section 46201, as it read on January 1, 2013, the Superintendent shall reduce the local control funding grant apportionment pursuant to Section 42238.02, as implemented by Section 42238.03, for the average daily attendance of each affected grade level, by the amount of that apportionment multiplied by the percentage of the minimum required minutes at that grade level that the school district failed to offer.
(c) Notwithstanding Section 37710, if a small school having between 11 and 99 valid California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress test scores operating on a four-day school week fails to achieve its Academic Performance Index growth target pursuant to Section 52052 for two consecutive years, the authority of that school to operate on a four-day school week shall be permanently revoked commencing with the school year following the second consecutive year the school failed to achieve its Academic Performance Index growth rate.
(d) If the school district operates one or more schools on a four-day school week pursuant to this section, the school district shall submit a report to the department, the Senate Committee on Education, and the Assembly Committee on Education on or before January 15, 2018. The report shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, information on all of the following:
(1) Programs the school district offered on the fifth schoolday and their participation rates.
(2) If the four-day school week schedule resulted in fiscal savings.
(3) Impact on overall attendance of the schools operating a four-day school week.
(4) Programs for which the state board waived minimum time and five-consecutive-day requirements and the operational and educational effects of the programs if they operated at less time than required.
(5) The impact of the four-day school week on crime statistics, especially on the day on which school would otherwise be in session.
(6) Information on the Academic Performance Index, pursuant to Section 52052, for every year a school in the school district operated on a four-day school week. The information shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, the base and growth Academic Performance Index of each school that operated on a four-day school week and whether that school met the Academic Performance Index growth targets.
(7) Specific outcomes for pupils attending a school operating on a four-day school week including, but not limited to, attendance rates, graduation rates, college entrance and attendance rates, and employment rates of pupils who do not attend college.
(e) The Moorpark Unified School District operating one or more schools on a four-day school week pursuant to this section may claim a day of attendance for the pupils enrolled in a school operating on a four-day school week pursuant to Sections 11300, 11301, and 46146.5.
(f) Notwithstanding subdivisions (a) to (e), inclusive, upon a determination that the school district identified in subdivision (a) equals or exceeds its local control funding formula target computed pursuant to Section 42238.02, as determined by the calculation of a zero difference pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 42238.03, the school district, as a condition of apportionment pursuant to Section 42238.02, as implemented pursuant to Section 42238.03, shall offer 180 days or more of instruction per year, and shall meet the minimum minute requirements pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 46207.
(g) This section shall become inoperative on June 30, 2018, and, as of January 1, 2019, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2019, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
(b) If the school district operates one or more schools on a four-day school week pursuant to this section, and the program for the school year provides fewer than the 180 days of instruction required under Section 46200, as it read on January 1, 2013, the Superintendent shall reduce the local control funding formula grant apportionment pursuant to Section 42238.02, as implemented pursuant to Section 42238.03, for the average daily attendance of each affected grade level, by 0.0056 multiplied by that apportionment for each day less than what was required in subdivision (a) of this section, as this section read on January 1, 2013, up to a maximum of five days. If the school district operates one or more schools on a four-day school week pursuant to this section, and the program provides fewer than the minimum instructional minutes required under Section 46201, as it read on January 1, 2013, the Superintendent shall reduce the local control funding grant apportionment pursuant to Section 42238.02, as implemented by Section 42238.03, for the average daily attendance of each affected grade level, by the amount of that apportionment multiplied by the percentage of the minimum required minutes at that grade level that the school district failed to offer.
(c) Notwithstanding Section 37710, if a small school having between 11 and 99 valid California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress test scores operating on a four-day school week fails to achieve its Academic Performance Index growth target pursuant to Section 52052 for two consecutive years, the authority of that school to operate on a four-day school week shall be permanently revoked commencing with the school year following the second consecutive year the school failed to achieve its Academic Performance Index growth rate.
(d) If the school district operates one or more schools on a four-day school week pursuant to this section, the school district shall submit a report to the department, the Senate Committee on Education, and the Assembly Committee on Education on or before January 15, 2018. The report shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, information on all of the following:
(1) Programs the school district offered on the fifth schoolday and their participation rates.
(2) If the four-day school week schedule resulted in fiscal savings.
(3) Impact on overall attendance of the schools operating a four-day school week.
(4) Programs for which the state board waived minimum time and five-consecutive-day requirements and the operational and educational effects of the programs if they operated at less time than required.
(5) The impact of the four-day school week on crime statistics, especially on the day on which school would otherwise be in session.
(6) Information on the Academic Performance Index, pursuant to Section 52052, for every year a school in the school district operated on a four-day school week. The information shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, the base and growth Academic Performance Index of each school that operated on a four-day school week and whether that school met the Academic Performance Index growth targets.
(7) Specific outcomes for pupils attending a school operating on a four-day school week including, but not limited to, attendance rates, graduation rates, college entrance and attendance rates, and employment rates of pupils who do not attend college.
(e) The Moorpark Unified School District operating one or more schools on a four-day school week pursuant to this section may claim a day of attendance for the pupils enrolled in a school operating on a four-day school week pursuant to Sections 11300, 11301, and 46146.5.
(f) Notwithstanding subdivisions (a) to (e), inclusive, upon a determination that the school district identified in subdivision (a) equals or exceeds its local control funding formula target computed pursuant to Section 42238.02, as determined by the calculation of a zero difference pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 42238.03, the school district, as a condition of apportionment pursuant to Section 42238.02, as implemented pursuant to Section 42238.03, shall offer 180 days or more of instruction per year, and shall meet the minimum minute requirements pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 46207.
(g) This section shall become inoperative on June 30, 2018, and, as of January 1, 2019, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2019, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
