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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also the state law right now says core instruction must be 75% of 990 hours or 742.5 hours. This equates to 4.125 hours per day in a 180 school day calendar.[/quote]

Those bills shortens instructional time from 742.5 hours to 680 hours or 3.78 hour per day in a 180 school day calendar. Recess as part of that bill can count towards 15% of that 680 hours leaving a required core instructional time of 578 hours per year or 3.21 hours per day.

If you were to take out the 12 extra days built into the calendar in terms of hours which equates to about 50 core instructional hours (about 16 minutes per day), that would further reduce core instructional time per day to 2.93 hours.

So in theory between those bill changes and the 12 extra days already built into the calendar, FCPS could shorten core instructional time by more than an hour for our students. And the state could start reducing spending stating that recess does not require the same funding as core education. Which subject do we want to take out?

Such progress for Fairfax and Virginia (sarcasm).

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