Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF2093

Establishing a pilot project to permit participating school districts and school
sites approved by the commissioner of children, families and learning to use
alternative models for delivering education by expanding the flexible learning
year program to improve instruction and educational outcomes and opportunities
and to increase the cost effectiveness of educational programs; requiring school
district or school site applications for participation in the program to be
approved by the local school board and a majority of teachers employed in the
district or at the site after public hearing, specifying certain application
content requirements and requiring approval by the commissioner before a certain
date; exempting participants from certain school calendar and length of school
year requirements; requiring the commissioner to provide participants with a
formula for computing average daily membership for funding purposes and to
assist participants in developing and implementing a valid and uniform procedure
to evaluate the efficacy of alternative learning year calendars; requiring
participants to complete a formative and summative evaluation of experiences in
delivering education under an alternative learning year calendar and to submit
progress reports to the commissioner by certain dates; requiring the
commissioner to compile the reports for presentation to the legislature by a
certain later date with recommendations for continuation or expansion of the
pilot project (je)