Utah Admin. Code R277-419-4 - Minimum School Days
(1)
(a) Except as provided in Subsection (1) and
Subsection
53F-2-102(4), an
LEA shall provide educational services over a minimum of 180 school days each
school year.
(b)
(i) Except as provided in Subsection
(1)(b)(ii), an LEA that participates in the National School Lunch Program shall
provide school meals on each day that the LEA schedules toward the LEA's 180
educational service days described in Subsection (1)(a).
(ii) The requirement to provide school meals
described in Subsection (1)(b)(i) does not apply to:
(A) an unplanned school closure or unplanned
learn from home day due to snow, inclement weather, or other
emergency;
(B) a day that an LEA
governing board reallocates as a teacher preparation or teacher professional
development day as described in Subsection
53F-2-102(4)(d);
(C) a day that an LEA counts in student
membership for professional development or parent-teacher conference days as
described in Subsection (6); or
(D)
a day where the LEA provides educational services while all the LEA's students
engage in distance learning.
(c) An LEA may seek an exception to the
number of school days described in Subsection (1)(a):
(i) except as provided in Subsection
(1)(c)(ii), for a whole school or LEA as described in Rule R277-121;
(ii) for a school closure due to snow,
inclement weather, or other emergency as described in Section
R277-121-5; or
(iii) for an individual student as described
in Section R277-419-11.
(2) An LEA may offer the required school days
described in Subsection (1)(a) at any time during the school year, consistent
with the l aw.
(3) An LEA shall
plan for emergency, activity, and weather-related exigency time in its annual
calendaring.
(4) Minimum standards
apply to a public school in all settings unless Utah law or this rule provides
for a specific exception.
(5) An
LEA's governing board shall provide adequate contingency school days in the
LEA's yearly calendar to avoid the necessity of requesting a waiver except in
the most extreme circumstances.
(6)
(a) A school may conduct parent-teacher and
student Plan for College and Career Readiness conferences during the school
day.
(b) Parent-teacher and college
and career readiness conferences may only be held for a total of the equivalent
of three full school days for the school year.
(c) Student membership for professional
development or parent-teacher conference days shall be counted as that of the
previous school day.
(d) The final
decision and approval regarding planning time, parent-teacher and Student Plan
for College and Career Readiness conferences rests with an LEA, consistent with
Utah Code and Board administrative rules.
(7)
(a) An
LEA may designate no more than a total of five educational service days at the
beginning of the school year for the assessment of students entering
kindergarten.
(b) If an LEA
designates educational services days for kindergarten assessment:
(i) an LEA shall designate the days in an
open meeting;
(ii) an LEA shall
provide adequate notice and explanation to kindergarten parents well in advance
of the assessment period; and
(iii)
assessment time per student shall be adequate to justify the forfeited
instruction time.
(8) An LEA shall approve total instructional
time and school calendars in an open meeting.
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