Tennessee lawmakers look beyond the 180-day school year

(The Center Square) – A legislative panel has floated ideas for how to change the school calendar from the required 180 days a year to a formula based on the number of instructional hours.

Members of the Advisory Committee on Innovations in K-12 Education expressed concerns about how a change would work with local school districts.

School systems are required to be in session for 180 days a year, with each having 6.5 hours of instruction. The school days can be extended by 30 minutes to give “stockpile” days. School systems can earn up to 13 stockpile days a year that can be used to make up days for inclement weather or other times that school have to close…

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