Cal. Educ. Code § 37712
Four-Day School Week
Redline — January 1, 2013 → current.View current text →
Current — January 1, 2025
As of January 1, 2013
(a) Beginning in the 2013–14 fiscal year, the Moorpark Unified School District may operate one or more high schools offering a middle college program in the school district on a four-day school week, if the school district complies with the instructional time requirements specified in Section 37701 and the other requirements of this chapter. The state board may waive the five-consecutive-day operating requirements for a middle college program that operates on a four-day school week pursuant to this section, provided that the school district meets the minimum time requirement for the middle college program.
(b) If the school district operates one or more schools on a four-day school week pursuant to this section, and the program for the school year provides fewer than the 180 days of instruction required under Section 46200, as it read on January 1, 2013, the Superintendent shall reduce the local control funding formula grant apportionment pursuant to Section 42238.02, as implemented pursuant to Section 42238.03, for the average daily attendance of each affected grade level, by 0.0056 multiplied by that apportionment for each day less than what was required in subdivision (a) of this section, as this section read on January 1, 2013, up to a maximum of five days. If the school district operates one or more schools on a four-day school week pursuant to this section, and the program provides fewer than the minimum instructional minutes required under Section 46201, as it read on January 1, 2013, the Superintendent shall reduce the local control funding grant apportionment pursuant to Section 42238.02, as implemented by Section 42238.03, for the average daily attendance of each affected grade level, by the amount of that apportionment multiplied by the percentage of the minimum required minutes at that grade level that the school district failed to offer.
(c) Notwithstanding Section 37710, if a small school having between 11 and 99 valid California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress test scores operating on a four-day school week fails to achieve its Academic Performance Index growth target pursuant to Section 52052 for two consecutive years, the authority of that school to operate on a four-day school week shall be permanently revoked commencing with the school year following the second consecutive year the school failed to achieve its Academic Performance Index growth rate.
(d) If the school district operates one or more schools on a four-day school week pursuant to this section, the school district shall submit a report to the department, the Senate Committee on Education, and the Assembly Committee on Education on or before January 15, 2018. The report shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, information on all of the following:
(1) Programs the school district offered on the fifth schoolday and their participation rates.
(2) If the four-day school week schedule resulted in fiscal savings.
(3) Impact on overall attendance of the schools operating a four-day school week.
(4) Programs for which the state board waived minimum time and five-consecutive-day requirements and the operational and educational effects of the programs if they operated at less time than required.
(5) The impact of the four-day school week on crime statistics, especially on the day on which school would otherwise be in session.
(6) Information on the Academic Performance Index, pursuant to Section 52052, for every year a school in the school district operated on a four-day school week. The information shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, the base and growth Academic Performance Index of each school that operated on a four-day school week and whether that school met the Academic Performance Index growth targets.
(7) Specific outcomes for pupils attending a school operating on a four-day school week including, but not limited to, attendance rates, graduation rates, college entrance and attendance rates, and employment rates of pupils who do not attend college.
(e) The Moorpark Unified School District operating one or more schools on a four-day school week pursuant to this section may claim a day of attendance for the pupils enrolled in a school operating on a four-day school week pursuant to Sections 11300, 11301, and 46146.5.
(f) Notwithstanding subdivisions (a) to (e), inclusive, upon a determination that the school district identified in subdivision (a) equals or exceeds its local control funding formula target computed pursuant to Section 42238.02, as determined by the calculation of a zero difference pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 42238.03, the school district, as a condition of apportionment pursuant to Section 42238.02, as implemented pursuant to Section 42238.03, shall offer 180 days or more of instruction per year, and shall meet the minimum minute requirements pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 46207.
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, commencing with the 2025–26 school year, the Stony Creek Joint Unified School District may operate one or more schools on a four-day school week if it complies with the instructional time requirements specified in Section 46207, the other requirements of this chapter, and all of the following requirements:
(1) (A) The school district shall annually, by no later than June 1, submit to the department for review and approval, a plan for how the school district will ensure that the minimum instructional minutes required pursuant to Section 46207 will be met in the following school year. The plan shall include, but not be limited to, an annual school calendar with at least five additional days of instruction than is otherwise needed to meet the minimum instructional minute requirements pursuant to Section 46207 in the event that one or more of the schools in the school district is prevented from operating for any of the reasons described in Section 41422 or 46392. If the school district does not need some or all of the five additional days of instruction in order to meet the minimum instructional minute requirements in that school year, the school district shall only offer the extra instructional days to pupils as necessary to meet those requirements.
(B) If the school district offered less than the minimum instructional minutes required pursuant to Section 46207, the school district shall be subject to the penalties described in subdivision (b) of Section 46207 and subdivision (c) of Section 46208. Nothing in this section shall be construed to subject the school district, if it has met the minimum instructional minutes required pursuant to Section 46207, to those penalties.
(2) (A) The school district makes a nutritionally adequate breakfast, and a nutritionally adequate lunch, available five days per week to any pupil who requests a meal, free of charge, and without consideration of the pupil’s eligibility for federally funded free or reduced-price meals.
(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the following definitions apply:
(i) “Nutritionally adequate breakfast” is one that qualifies for reimbursement under the most current meal pattern for the federal School Breakfast Program, as defined in Section 220.8 of Title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
(ii) “Nutritionally adequate lunch” is one that qualifies for reimbursement under the most current meal pattern for the federal National School Lunch Program, as defined in Section 210.10 of Title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
(b) If the Stony Creek Joint Unified School District has an exclusive bargaining representative, it may operate a school on a four-day school week pursuant to this section only if the school district and the representative of each bargaining unit of school district employees mutually agree to that operation in a memorandum of understanding.
(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), if the Stony Creek Joint Unified School District operates a four-day school week pursuant to this section but subsequently experiences, in a single year, a decline in status in 50 percent or more of the state indicators used to measure performance that are included in the evaluation rubrics adopted pursuant to Section 52064.5, the school district, commencing with the following school year, shall not operate a four-day school week.
(d) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2029, and, as of January 1, 2030, is repealed.
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