Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature agree: The state should again require a minimum 180-day school twelvemonth, starting in 2015-xvi.

Brownish confirmed his view in a department of  the 154-folio educational activity "trailer bill," the supplemental legislation accompanying the state upkeep, that the assistants released final week.

The Legislature reduced the minimum number of instructional days to 175 in 2008, amidst severe cuts in school funding, in lodge to permit school districts to shut down operations and apply staff furloughs instead of additional layoffs. Lawmakers set an expiration engagement at the finish of the 2014-15 schoolhouse year. Brown is recommending the same timetable.

The LAO survey found that 20 percent of districts had cut one to four days off the school year and 20 percent of districts had eliminated five days, lowering the instructional calendar to 175 days, in 2010-11. Some districts have maintained the shorter year (click to enlarge).

The LAO survey found that twenty per centum of districts had cut one to four days off the schoolhouse year and 20 percent of districts had eliminated five days, lowering the instructional calendar to 175 days, in 2010-11. Some districts take maintained the shorter yr since and so. (Click to overstate)

Districts took up the offering. According to the Legislative Analyst'due south Part, which did a survey of districts, 39 percent of districts reduced the school year past 2010-xi, with a fifth of districts dropping ane to four days and a fifth of districts reducing the maximum v days. Most of those districts continued with the shorter year in 2011-12, too.

A survey by EdSource of the land's xxx largest districts ("Schools Under Stress: Pressures Mount on California'due south Largest School Districts," pages 12-thirteen), enrolling a 3rd of the state'south 6.2 million students, in November 2022 establish that a dozen of those districts had reduced the length of the school year, with 9 at the minimum 175 days. A follow-up survey final October revealed that 14 of the xxx had scheduled less than 180 instructional days this year; once again this year, ix unified districts had adopted 175 instructional days: Capistrano, Chino Valley, Corono-Norco, Fontana, Los Angeles, Moreno Valley, San Bernardino City, San Diego and Twin Rivers.

Districts dodged a bullet when voters passed Suggestion 30 in November. Had they not, G-12 and customs colleges would have faced an immediate and permanent $half dozen billion cut. The Legislature would have permitted districts to cut 15 more than days ­– three weeks – this year and side by side, for the shortest instructional agenda in the nation. Since  Suggestion 30 passed, some districts are building back a few days this year, and others are expected to return to 180 days adjacent year. San Bernardino is one district that confirmed it is not planning to add more days to its 175-day calendar adjacent yr.

Along with adopting a shorter school yr, the Legislature temporarily cut the strings attached to spending on 40 categorical programs, totaling $4.five billion. Restrictions were to be reimposed at the end of this schoolhouse year, but Brown is proposing to make spending flexibility permanent as part of the Local Command Funding Formula, his sweeping finance reform programme. The governor is viewing a uniform minimum school twelvemonth as a land mandate, consistent with courtroom decisions defining the state's obligation to provide equal access to educational activity to all students.

The state Department of Finance is projecting a $seven billion growth in Proposition 98 spending for K-12 and community colleges between 2013-14 ($56 billion) and 2015-sixteen ($63 billion). By cartoon attention to the 180-24-hour interval year, Brown is signaling to those districts non now at the minimum that they have 2 years to brand information technology a priority.

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