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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you counted up the hours of education each day, instead of subtracting the 20 minutes you're talking about?

http://www.fcps.edu/news/school-year-14-15.shtml

In total, the revised 2014-15 school year calendar includes seven teacher workdays to offer teachers time for staff meetings and professional development, as well as three teacher staff development days, four strategic planning days, and six days with a two-hour early release for teacher directed time.

The length of the school year remains the same, but the number of days for students has been reduced from 183 days to 180 days. By eliminating the shortened Monday schedule for elementary schools, FCPS was able to make changes to the calendar that comply with state accreditation for 990 hours of instruction. The change to 990 instructional hours also eliminates the need to make up inclement weather days at the end of the school year if fewer than 13 days are missed.[/quote]

I think that is the original question --- is FCPS counting the "on paper" 20 min. extension of the school day as part of the 990?  That is what has been reported in other threads here.  It does seem to be a shell game if that is the case.  I said, IF that is the way FCPS is doing it this year.[/quote]

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