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2009-10 OKCPS School Calendars Recommendations to Modify District Calendars to make up for Days Schools Were Closed in January, 2010 OKCPS Board of Education February 4, 2010
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2009-10 OKCPS School CalendarsRecommendations to Modify District
Calendars to make up for Days SchoolsWere Closed in January, 2010
OKCPS Board of EducationFebruary 4, 2010
State Requirements• State requires 175 days of instruction or 1,050 hours of instruction. (Actual 180 days and 1,080 hours including professional development)
• (175 X 6 hrs = 1,050 hours)
• Teachers have 5 additional days on contract for professional development.
• Each school district declares whether their school calendar approved by their BOE is based on “days” or “hours” of instruction.
Current 2009-10 SchoolCalendar is based on 175Days of instruction.
End of 4th Quarter wouldHave been May 25th forStudents. Record day for Teachers would have beenWed. May 26th.
However schools were closedFor weather Jan 7th, 8th, 28th,29th, Feb 1st, and Feb 2nd.
Options to make up 6 “days”
• Add on to the end of the school year.
• Would push the end‐of‐4th‐quarter to Thursday June 3rd and record day to Fri June 4
• Saturday School.
• Spring Break
Other options to make up “hours” of instruction
• OKCPS Board of Education votes to change the district calendar model from 175 “days” of instruction to 1,050 “hours” of instruction. (again actual 180 and 1,080)
• OKCPS Board of Education votes to add time to each remaining day on the school calendar to make up for the 36 hours (6 days) lost.
• Superintendent notifies the SDE in writing of the change in the Calendar approved by the BOE.
New potential approvedCalendar for 2009-10 Adding 45 minutes to eachRemaining school day.
Change would take place Beginning Tuesday Feb 16th.
All schools would begin theSame time in the morning asCurrent. End time would be45 minutes later.
Begin End (current) New
Elem 8:30 (3:00) 3:45Middle 9:20 (3:50) 4:35High 7:40 (2:10) 2:55
End of 4th quarter now Fri May 21st
(Adding two additional “snow days” Just in case.)Record Day will be Wed May 24th (orLater if additional snow days areNeeded).
Continuous Learning ElementarySchools.
End of 4th Quarter now TuesdayJune 1st.
Record Day now Wednesday June 2nd,
Issues
• Logistically, and practically the most structured way to add the additional minutes to the school day is to add to the existing master schedules.
• Schools change their bell schedule in the master schedule.
• Master schedule stays the same, just longer class periods.
• Adding an additional new class period onto the end of the day means completely changing master schedule and hand‐scheduling each student into the newly established class.
• We have so many different master schedules at the different schools, there is some flexibility in the ways the minutes can be added. Our student system supports many options.
Financial Considerations
• Extending the school day and not add days to the end of the year would save transportation approx $16,500 per day. (X 6 days = $99,000).
• Extending the school day and not add days to the end of the year would cost CNS approx $63,250 per day. (X 6 days = $379,500).
• Custodial, Grounds, Energy, etc., no difference.
• Overtime – WE have 285 7 ½ ‐ 8 hour employees at the sites –adding 45 minutes to the school day could cost (worst case) $13,035 per week. X 13 weeks = $169,455.
