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(MOU) providing for calamity days (and possibly a contingency plan)) does not expire until after July 1, 2014, districts must follow the agreement or MOU until their expiration. However, any collective bargaining agreement or renewal executed after July 1, 2014 must comply with the new requirements for a minimum school year.

See MINIMUM SCHOOL YEAR below.

CALAMITY DAYS – CONTINGENCY PLAN

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A board of education can adopt a contingency plan for making up to five school days after using all of five of its allowed calamity days. The plan must be adopted by September 1 of each school year.

These days can be made up as whole days or by adding 30-minute to the originally scheduled school day.

While this provision was repealed effective on July 1, 2014, it will remain in effect for school districts whose collective bargaining agreements (or memoranda of understanding) required contingency plans beyond the effective date of the repeal. In the event that a school district has used all of its allowed calamity days that do not require make-up and has used the days identified in its contingency plan, the district can lengthen its school days in increments of thirty minutes until it has made up each “minimum” school day (5 hours for grades 1-6 and 5½ hours for grades 7-12, both excluding lunch). However, the district must lengthen its day in order to receive this credit. Time normally scheduled beyond the minimum school day cannot be “banked” and then applied later against any excess days beyond the contingency plan. While this provision was repealed, effective July 1, 2014, districts must still abide by any provisions for making up time if they are included in an existing collective bargaining agreement or memorandum of understanding until their expiration. A school district can make up to three days that schools were closed for a calamity by using lessons posted to the district’s or school’s web portal or web site. The district must post a plan with the department of education by August 1 each year if it wishes to utilize this option. The plan must include the written consent of the collective bargaining unit representing the district’s teachers. Teachers must submit by November 1 a sufficient number of lessons for each course taught by that teacher that school year to cover the number of make-up days specified in the plan. Teachers may receive up to one professional development day to create lesson plans for the lessons. Students will have two weeks to complete the on-line lessons, and the time will begin on the day that the lesson is posted. If a student does not have computer access at home, the student will have two weeks from the date of the school’s reopening (if the lessons were posted prior to the school’s reopening) to complete the lessons. Apparently, this method could be used to make up missed days until the equivalent of three days had been made up in this way.

CALAMITY DAYS IN EXCESS OF CONTINGENCY PLAN

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CALAMITY DAYS – ON-LINE LESSONS

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Another similar option is for BLIZZARD BAGS , which appears above in this section.

CAMPAIGN, LEVY

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School district staff members cannot be paid “for time spent on any activity to influence the outcome of an election. However, “attending a