HB2391 HED FBM 2-13

                        HOUSE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

                                                            COUNSEL: DG

FLOOR BOOK MEMO:                 Reducing early childhood education program requirements from five days per week to four days per week and imposing minimum instructional hours per week and minimum instructional days per year

SPONSORS:                                    Delegates Pasdon, Duke, Statler, Kurcaba, Upson, Rohrbach, Evans, D., Cooper, Romine, Wagner and Rowan

DATE INTRODUCED:                   February 13, 2015

CODE REFERENCE:                   §18-5-44 (amend and reenact)

PURPOSE:                                        The bill creates a new annual waiver for a county board that, with the support of a majority of participating families, wishes to offer a four-day early childhood education program and to use the fifth weekday for staff work. It also makes technical changes.

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE:      The committee substitute creates no new waiver. In lieu of a waiver, it reduces the required number of instructional days per week from five to four and imposes minimum instructional hours per week and minimum instructional days per year. It makes additional technical changes.

FISCAL NOTE:                             No 

EFFECTIVE DATE:                     Regular (90 days)

ADDITIONAL COMMITTEE REFERENCE: None