House committee substitute deletes the content of the 1st edition and now provides the following.

 

Amends SL 2020-3, Section 2.1 to limit the definition of year-round school to schools with calendars adopted prior to March 1, 2020.  Modifies the attendance requirement for one of the permitted plans for a year-round school to include an average of 44 to 46 days (was, fixed at 45) followed by an average of 15 to 20 days of vacation (was, fixed at 15).

 

Changes 2020-21 school calendar provisions in SL 2020-3, Section 2.11(b)(2)c. to remove the prohibition on remote instruction days before August 24, 2020, for traditional public school, and the prohibition on remote instruction days before the sixth instructional day of a year-round or modified calendar school. Authorizes local school boards to change adopted calendars of single-track, year-round schools to vary from the permitted plan requiring 44 to 46 attendance days followed by 15 to 20 vacation days if necessary to ensure health and safety of students so long as the other existing requirements are met. 

 

Limits flexibility for local school boards to use remote instruction days as teacher workdays to those five days originally planned as part of 190-day annual calendar. Authorizes further remote instruction days that a governing board determines it needs for health and safety reasons, provided the public school unit ensures compliance with COVID-19 guidance from State health and education agencies. 

 

Amends SL 2020-4, Section 3.3(6) to limit the $75 million appropriation to Department of Public Instruction to emergency school nutrition services, rather than school nutrition services generally. Adds Summer Food Service program to expand the eligibility criteria and extends eligibility period to December 30, 2020 (was, end of 2019-2020 school year).