Number of school days and hours of instruction held in a school year and state aid for summer classes

Current law permits a school district to receive state aid for pupils who enroll in academic summer classes and laboratory periods offered by the school district if the state superintendent has determined that the classes are necessary for academic purposes. Current law also permits a school district to include in its revenue limit calculation a portion of the summer class enrollment for such necessary, academic classes and laboratory periods.

This bill permits a school district that provides year-round school to receive state aid for pupils who enroll in interim session classes and laboratory periods offered by the school district if the state superintendent has determined that the classes are necessary for academic purposes, and to include a portion of the interim class enrollment for such necessary, academic classes and laboratory periods in its revenue limit calculation. The bill defines "interim session" to mean a period of time in a school year when school is held by a school in a school district to provide direct pupil instruction.

This bill also permits a school district to receive state aid for and include in its revenue limit calculations a portion of the summer class enrollment and interim session enrollment of high school pupils and pupils in the seventh and eighth grades who complete an online summer class offered by the school district if all of the following conditions are satisfied: 1) the pupil either resides in the school district that offers the online class or is enrolled in that school district through the open enrollment program; 2) a high school pupil receives credit for completing the online class and a pupil in the seventh or eighth grade successfully completes the class; and 3) the school board of the school district that offers the online class has determined that the class fulfills a prerequisite to the receipt of a high school diploma.