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)