Senate Bill 0126

ARCHIVE (2009)

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DIGEST OF SB126 (Updated March 26, 2009 1:58 pm - DI 84)

Financial responsibility curriculum. Requires public schools, charter schools, and accredited nonpublic schools to provide instruction in personal financial responsibility to students in grades 6 through 12 under standards adopted by the state board of education. Allows up to six half days when students are dismissed for staff professional development activities to count as student instructional days for purposes of the required 180 day school year under certain circumstances. Allows a school corporation to dismiss students in grades 1 through 6 for up to ten hours and students in grades 7 through 12 for up to twelve hours within a school year for the purpose of conducting parent-teacher conferences under certain conditions. Requires the department of education to grant a school corporation a waiver of penalty for cancelling student instructional days due to inclement weather under certain conditions.

    Current Status:
     In Conference Committee
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