Summary of Original Version

Allow local school districts to make up days missed by adding instructional time to student attendance days; notwithstand the requirement for the student instructional year to have 170 student attendance days; allow waiver of up to five student attendance days if a school district is unable to provide the required 1,062 hours of instruction by June 4, 2025; require local boards of education seeking to revise its calendar to submit a plan for approval to the Department of Education; allow instructional time made up and days waived to count as employee contracted days; EMERGENCY.

Summary of Amendment: House Committee Substitute 1

Summary Retain original provisions, except provide five disaster relief student attendance days; require the commissioner of education to deny school day waiver requests for school districts that did not make up days by adding time to the student instructional day.